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> business stakeholders, who can see the business reality

but do not want to understand that technical debt does slow things down, and as such it must be paid back as soon as possible.

> engineers, who [...] understand the other truth

and are oblivious to the fact that giving correct estimates is not the point. Shipping sellable functionalities at the deadline is the point!

If the functionalities were sellable enough, rich documentation and elegant code will come. If they weren't, nobody will have to bother.



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