Architecture & practice·Delivery, flow and technical debt
someone finally separated the corners we cut on purpose from the ones we cut without noticing.
Debt quadrant
Also calledtechnical debt quadrant, reckless versus prudent debt
Fowler's classification of debt along two axes: deliberate or inadvertent, prudent or reckless. It is useful because the four kinds need different responses — prudent deliberate debt needs a repayment plan, inadvertent debt needs learning, and reckless deliberate debt needs a conversation about how the decision was made. It is the quickest way to stop a debt discussion becoming a single undifferentiated pile that never gets prioritised.