Technical debt is just business debt, it’s risk to the business if people don’t understand it or it’s hard to maintain.
Technical debt is a terrible term because it implies it’s just a technical problem, but it’s a business decision.
Technical debt is a terrible term because it implies it’s just a technical problem, but it’s a business decision.
What the technical side of the operation wants to say is "We're making short term decision that are going to hurt us in the long term", and what the business side of the operation hears is "This is free money".