technical debt
nounEtymology Coined by American computer programmer Ward Cunningham in 1992.
1
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences, Software The implied cost of additional future work caused by choosing an easy but inferior solution originally.
- An important attribute of technical debt is that it grows in an unpredictable, nonlinear fashion. Each bit of technical debt, when added to the pool of existing technical debt, might do significantly more harm than the size of that new debt might imply.2012, Kenneth S. Rubin, Essential Scrum, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 142: