The Debt That Does Not Appear in the Code

Some companies ship a feature in two weeks and then take six months to change a sentence on an invoice. It is not always incompetence; often it is accumulated debt. And I do not mean only the technical debt engineering teams discuss when code is old, poorly documented, or full of patches. Exactly. Today we separate two accounts that are often mixed together: technical debt and operational debt. One lives mainly in software; the other settles into the way the entire company works. The episode’s thesis is simple: fixing the code without fixing the processes can leave an organization just as slow, only with more modern technology. It can even make things worse. Digitizing a confusing process does not automatically make it good; sometimes it turns disorder into a system that produces errors faster.

Full episode: https://youtu.be/bLPr6pEo154

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