Pay off your debt. Lower your mortgage. Eliminate your car payment. Even reduce your college loan. Wait. What? No, it can’t do any of that. But it can pay off your technical debt.
The father of the Wiki, Ward Cunningham coined the term technical debt. This metaphor refers to the built-in inefficiencies of software. That could have happened by developers rushing software into production to their inability to solve the intended problem. Or it could have happened by them building software with vague requirements. Or by excessive customization of off the shelf software – forcing the software to do what it was never designed to do.
