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Discussion on: Functional Debt: The Price of “Yes”

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Bassem

Thanks Matt!! I am in my first couple of years in my career. But I am already seeing projects carrying technical and functional debts.

I think that those debts take some time to be felt. They always like creep in. And i am wondering what options do we have if the debts are too much?

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Matt Eland

The most effective way I've seen to handle severe functional limitation / debt is to launch a new product line and reuse as much infrastructure and supporting logic as possible. Really it's something I think you have to design around where your product needs to go. If you didn't do that you need to look at how to pivot into parallel offerings or add on configurability.