Technical Debt

After over a decade of maintaining the Continuous Delivery Automation Framework, the time has come to pause new features to clean out the closet… or has it?

The Pain and Patience of Paying off Debt

My desire to expunge the mistakes of the past and refresh with best practice glamour has, like in the commercial world, abruptly encountered reality. Feature demands, hidden defects and day-to-day challenges made me reflect on what I wanted to achieve and what I needed to be working. It really helped me appreciate my clients struggle when deciding how to distribute their finite resources between going forward and not begin burdened by their past.

So what have I learned?

Patience.

A little, over time, will see us through, hopefully. I’ll check in next year to see how that’s working out…