See Martin Fowler's essay on Technical Debt . Also see Steve McConnell's thoughts <http://blogs.construx.com/blogs/stevemcc/archive/2007/11/01/technical-debt-2.aspx.

We can use Agile techniques to get things done ASAP and ACAP (As Soon As Possible and As Cheap As Possible). However, we still need to …

Yes, it's an omission and, yes, it's a mistake. I should have said something along the lines of "risk is an uninteresting complication" or "risk is just a euphemism for bad management."

Why is risk uninteresting?

First, the seeds (Chad Fowler's "The Big Rewrite ", and CodeCraft, "To Rewrite or not …

In "It's Strategic -- but it's not -- but it was -- now it's a burden ", I rambled about the situation I encounter on a regular basis. Here's a Haiku that captures the situation.

Please Replace It

It's heavily customized,

We can't install an upgrade,

We don't dare touch it.

The maintenance costs …