agile Technical Debt Is a Chronic Condition, Not a Single Decision Technical debt isn't a one-time choice; it’s a *continual* trade-off between quality and speed. Recognizing this as a chronic condition, not an acute problem, changes how we approach it entirely.
agile The Manifesto We Forgot We Were Following The Agile Manifesto's authors wrote a weighting. Twenty-five years of practice turned it into an instead-of. Treating context-specific trade-offs as timeless principles is technical debt at the organizational level.