Tech Debt Wars
Non-technical CEOs without technical leadership are in a tricky spot. They’re toeing the line between the businesses success and keeping the devs above a tech debt avalanche. Their developers are telling them they need to refactor and upgrade constantly. Sometimes they’re right. A crucial security patch or a piece of code that will slow the entire site to a crawl. But most of the time it’s not necessary or can be put off. Without someone balanced in the middle— the developers will keep pushing for tech debt reduction and the CEO will keep blazing forward saying no to everything.
There are developers with business acumen. Unfortunately they’re the most highly paid and sought after. This can be trained though. Telling devs the “why” gets their gears turning.
And increase their solutions' business impact by tenfold.

