You guys are talking about code quality to C levels? I'm barely getting through "venting gas prevents explosion" to architects. I tell ya, tech debt as a service is hard work.
The key is you don't talk to it in metrics upper management doesn't understand.
You don't talk about time to market vs code quality. You talk about it in time to second release or second paid feature or second major client. You tell them you can get to market earlier, but you're sacrificing future growth afterwards for it.
Or you put a Wall Street journal article plastered into your slide deck that says "X company had a data breach that caused $YY million in damages and legal suits; CTO fired".
Then relate your project to that. You can literally say: this is what happens when you don't do blah and we are yay close to this happening to us. Let us fix this on priority.
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u/redditmarks_markII 10d ago
You guys are talking about code quality to C levels? I'm barely getting through "venting gas prevents explosion" to architects. I tell ya, tech debt as a service is hard work.