Today I was reading an article that Martin Fowler has recently added to his blog like couple months back. The article was about Lean (Scrum) process and its poor applications by missing the point.
What’s the Point?
I’ll quote Martin Fowler here:
What’s happened is that they haven’t paid enough attention to the internal quality of their software. If you make that mistake you’ll soon find your productivity dragged down because it’s much harder to add new features than you’d like. You’ve taken on a crippling TechnicalDebt and your scrum has gone weak at the knees. (And if you’ve been in a real scrum, you’ll know that’s a Bad Thing.)
Yes the point is, loosing the quality by not paying enough attention to that. Ward Cunningham has a very good touch to this point by telling what is Debt Metaphor.
What he says is basically, pushing iterations/projects to finish earlier by giving up the quality is like getting some very high interest loan. By getting the loan, you can do something sooner than you might initially thought, but you’re paying a very high interest while you’re refactoring your code to satisfy new needs.
I’d recommend you to watch below video from Ward Cunningham:
And two awesome articles from Michael Feathers and Martin Fowler for your considerations:
