Economic Cost
The average developer spends more than 13 hours per week dealing with technical debt. A medium-sized company can lose $5 million to $10 million annually to unmanaged technical debt. Technical debt is presented as costing the United States…
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The average developer spends more than 13 hours per week dealing with technical debt. A medium-sized company can lose $5 million to $10 million annually to unmanaged technical debt. Technical debt is presented as costing the United States economy more than $2 trillion per year. In extreme cases, engineering organizations may spend most of their time on maintenance instead of building new things.