Technical Debt & Economics | Thomas Nys

Technical debt maintenance ratio - 40% of engineering time on yesterday's shortcuts

40% Maintaining, 20% Innovating - The Technical Debt Math Nobody Talks About

Cloud migration failure case study - why lift-and-shift costs twice

The 100k Cloud Migration Mistake

Technical debt as permanent friction - why drag slows every delivery sprint

From Technical Debt to Technical Drag

Architecture review ROI - why skipping reviews costs months of rework

The False Economy of Skipping Architecture Reviews

Technical debt interest rate - why code shortcuts compound faster than finance

Hidden Cost Multiplier: Technical Debt Compounds Faster Than Financial Debt

Technical debt refactoring myth - why teams never find time to fix architecture

The Expensive Lie - We'll Refactor Later

MVP technical debt trap - hidden interest rates on quick launches

Why MVP Thinking Creates Permanent Debt

Engineering culture and technical debt - speed without quality creates drag

Speed-only cultures build hidden debt, not velocity

Irreversible architecture decisions - recognizing one-way doors in system design

The architecture decisions you can't reverse

Architecture beyond code - why system design includes people and process

Most teams view architecture as code