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Ward Cunningham

A pioneer in software engineering who introduced the concept of Technical Debt in 1992 and is also the inventor of the Wiki concept.

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Sep 16

The concept of Technical Debt was proposed by software engineer Ward Cunningham as a metaphor for code quality issues that accumulate as a result of prioritizing short-term development speed.

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Aug 24

The concept of technical debt was proposed by Ward Cunningham in 1992, referring to the long-term maintenance costs that accumulate when suboptimal solutions are chosen for the sake of short-term delivery speed.

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