A recipe for massive technical debt: 📉 🚫 Throw a large number of...
A recipe for massive technical debt: 📉
🚫 Throw a large number of developers at an empty project...and tell them to hurry.
🚫 Don't bother with communication, planning, or collaboration. We don't have time for that.
🚫 Give them no clear technical guidelines or direction. Assume they'll figure it out.
🚫 Skip types. Assume we can move faster in a "dynamic, fast-paced environment".
🚫 Ignore key aspects of quality like security, performance, accessibility, readability, and reuse. Assume we can tack those on at the end.
🚫 Skip reviews / pairing. Assume whatever everyone writes is fine.
🚫 Don’t configure CI, source control, testing, formatting, or linting up front. Assume we’ll do these things later.
Good luck.🤞
The solution? Build in quality from the beginning.
✅ Clear technical vision
✅ Robust communication
✅ Thoughtful planning and pre-work
✅ Automate quality checks at the start