Known Technical Debt | Glossary

 

Definition

Technical Debt is the extra cost incurred during development period, when a short and quick solution is used instead of a safer one that would take more time. Known Technical Debt is one of its’s status categories. It represents the debt that is known/made visible to the development team for future consideration (and development phases).

Further Reading

  • Refactoring for Software Design Smells: Managing Technical Debt”(book), by Girish Suryanarayana.
  • For more on Known Technical Debt, read here, here and here.