Stop paying tech debts, start maintaining code

Tech debt is a term that’s tossed around a lot in software. I haven’t worked at a company that didn’t talk about tech debt. I haven’t been on a development team where its product owners weren’t in some kind of tug-of-war with the devs over mounting tech debt. It’s a permanent fixture in the software industry. A fixture I don’t think is well understood by either side.To that end, I want to accomplish a few things in this article. I want to provide a frame shift on tech debt. I use frame shift as a way to say stop using the term Tech Debt! I also want to break down some meaningful, practical, day-to-day ways to discuss and practice software maintenance.