Can We Please Stop Talking About Tech Debt? • Emily Rosengren • GOTO 2023

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Chicago 2023. #GOTOcon #GOTOchgo
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Emily Rosengren - Engineering Leader at Grainger ‪@grainger‬

RESOURCES
linkedin.com/in/emily-rosengren-99ab631b
github.com/emirose

ABSTRACT
Want to know the secret to getting your "tech debt" work addressed? Stop calling it tech debt. While the concept was helpful when Ward Cunningham first coined it, a lot has changed about the software industry since then. Let's talk about why this concept is holding us back and how we should think differently about making sure important tech work gets done. [...]

TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
01:46 Tidying up
05:04 What is tech debt?
07:00 A lot has changed since the 90s
11:41 Why "tech debt" is holding us back
15:56 What to do instead
18:03 How to do it successfully
21:45 Where to go from here
22:32 Outro

Download slides and read the full abstract here:
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Marie Kondo • The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up • amzn.to/3Oi38Wc
Adam Tornhill • Software Design X-Rays • amzn.to/3DEeEnI
Adam Tornhill • Your Code as a Crime Scene • amzn.to/3FI5E2V
Adam Tornhill • Lisp for the Web • leanpub.com/lispweb
Adam Tornhill • Patterns in C • leanpub.com/patternsinc

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