I like to think there's a hidden mirror analogy of "tech debt," which is the "time discount," or the notion that the longer you wait to actualize a monetary gain, the less valuable it is. Both concepts are drawn from finance, and if one is applicable to software, so is the other.
I don't dare speak of this in engineering circles, though. I'd be chased out of the office with pitchforks...
The "monetary gain" I'm referring to here would be the software itself. So it's the idea of software being intrinsically more valuable the sooner you get it out the door. ::ducks::
I don't dare speak of this in engineering circles, though. I'd be chased out of the office with pitchforks...