Technical Debt (tech debt) is “an obligation for future technical work”1. In a technology product company, tech debt is friction that slows down the rate of change in product2.
Jack Danger Canty argues that technical debt flows from the strategic decisions made by leaders of the company. This occurs when leaders choose to move fast now and go slow later1 .
1. Danger, J. Executive Engineering: Practical Engineering Theory for Software Leaders. (The Technical Executive, 2024).
2. Weber. Supporting Sustainability. https://benjiweber.co.uk/blog/2022/01/30/supporting-sustainability/ (2022).