A two-minute interactive audit to score whether technical debt is dragging your engineering team. Five signals that separate people problems from code problems.

A client’s team spent a full week adding a CSV export to their admin panel. Two engineers, clear requirements, maybe a day of actual work. The rest of the time went to understanding existing code well enough to change it safely. That’s what I call codebase drag: when the codebase makes every task take longer than it should. It doesn’t show up in any dashboard or sprint report.

  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
    3·
    3 hours ago

    To quote my manager from today: “I don’t want us to spin our wheels and turn this into a month long effort”

    The request is to effectively rearchitect a foundational part of the system. It’s a large lift project that should take weeks.

    Of course I pushed back, I have good rapport with him and I’m not worried about getting fired over this. Not everyone has that.

    • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      “This isn’t a bazaar. We don’t haggle over deadlines. We professionally estimate them.”

      • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
        1·
        50 minutes ago

        I’ve never heard the phrase “We professionally estimate deadlines”, but I’m gonna start using it. Thanks for that little nugget!

      • Poik@pawb.social
        4·
        2 hours ago

        Nevermind, it does sound like you work in software. This is a very familiar quote. x.x And it always comes right before planning slows to a crawl.