approved by TC 24-April-2019
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One Gartner analyst defines Technical Debt as "the deviation of an application from non-functional requirements". Wikipedia's definition states "Technical debt (also known as design debt or code debt) is a concept in software development that reflects the implied cost of additional rework caused by choosing an easy solution now instead of using a better approach that would take longer."
Both definitions provide valuable elements that help define the types of issues that we would refer to as Technical Debt. These types of issues may have many causes, and while the particular cause may be helpful in reflecting on potential process change or even providing insight into how to address them, the important thing is to identify the debt that exists.
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The Tech Council will periodically (at least annually) survey the FOLIO codebase and technical environment (including existing requests and/or JIRA issues) and make recommendations to the Product Council on timetables to remediate items.
Current list
See this page to view the current list of Tech Debt items we are tracking.Items are currently being tracked in the Tech Debt project in JIRA.
(The spreadsheet of tech debt items is now only a historical document.)