I'd like to find a way to record the Technical Debt we incur in TFS. I need to record each item outside of a specific iteration to ensure that it is visible and easily-reported all the time. I've ...

I have class that implements Set and List. Programs works fine in Java6 and Java7 public class SetList<V> implements Set<V>, List<V> { .... } With Java 8 , this does not compi...

When a new version of a framework or language appears (e.g. .NET 3.5, SQL2008), what approach do people take to when to adopt/upgrade? Generally developers will say as soon as possible (they want ...

Assuming a refactoring is needed (too big to be incorporated as part of an existing User Story) - is it okay to have a Refactoring 'story' on the Product Backlog? The purpose of refactoring ...

I have a large number of individual, unrelated Java programs in a "Programs" folder, and I'd really like to be able to calculate a technical debt score automatically for each individual program. I ...

Do you actively manage technical debt debt on your software development projects and if so, how do you do it?

Possible Duplicate: Do comments slow down an interpreted language? Will there be noticeable performance degradation in the execution of a large .py file if more than 75% of the lines ...

While the most recent Coding Horror blog entry is not the first time I had heard of the concept, as I was reading it I couldn't help but apply the it in my mind to my own project. The code ...

In your practice, how do you effectively track and manage technical debt? Is there a specific metric, like SLOC, that you use? How do you visually display your results to stakeholders and ...

I'm setting up a technical debt register at The Office and want to make it a fairly comprehensive tool. What are the key pieces of information that we should be recording?

I'm currently working with a fairly old product that's been saddled with a lot of technical debt from poor programmers and poor development practices in the past. We are starting to get better and ...

There are (at least) two ways that technical debts make their way into projects. The first is by conscious decision. Some problems just are not worth tackling up front, so they are consciousl...