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Technical Debt

15 October 2013

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Technical Debt: a neologistic metaphor referring to the eventual consequences of poor or evolving software architecture and software development within a codebase.

 An example? (Actually I'm not sure if this qualifies or is more of a "misguided genius" thing):

 I need to make up two mutually exclusive lists for markets to support an existing provider and a new provider of the same Ancillary product.

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