We continually encounter the uncertainty of how much and which technical debt to take on or pay down. We crave certainty in a similar way we crave primary motivations like food or sleep. This psychological craving affects our business and engineering decisions in unconscious ways. Forewarned is forearmed: we’ll explore how uncertainty influences debt choices and how to recognize the cost of certainty.
Richard Newman, a leader in technology development with several startups and going concerns, shares with us how cognitive bias and philosophy affects technical debt.
