The document explores the definition, measurement, and management of technical debt, including its impact on developer productivity and the strategies to effectively address it.
Skills lock-in : As your developers are becoming familiar with a certain type of product or architecture, you'll have skills lock-in: it'll take you time to re-train (or hire) developers for a different product or technology. As skills availability is one of the major constraints in today's IT shops, this type of lock-in is very real. Some niche
Effort : This is the additional work to be done in terms of person-hours. If we opt to deploy in containers on top of Kubernetes in order to reduce cloud provider lock-in, this item would include the effort to learn a new tool, write Docker files, configure Kubernetes, etc.
Expense : This is the additional cash expense, e.g. for product licenses,