A product over time will accumulate tech debt. This is the nature of software. Technology needs to be upgraded and/or refactored. Most partners and engineers do not want to deal with tech debt. It is boring, tedious, and time-consuming — while new features are fun, flashy, and interesting.
But because of our long-term philosophy, Heady takes responsibility for code quality as well as tech debt. We build processes to make code simpler to maintain. For example, we have a very robust review process where engineers set standards, review and approve, as well as commit code. Our mantra: Write code you might inherit one day. If you work on a digital product short-term, you can get away with not addressing the inevitable tech debt. You know that someone else will pick up the slack somewhere in the future. However, if you are in the business of building long-term relationships with products and employees, you can not brush tech debt under the rug. You or one of your colleagues will most likely be that “someone else.”
Heady addresses tech debt on a rolling basis — rather than suddenly running up against an unmaintainable code that needs to be scrapped and rewritten. This saves time, money, resources. The result is a positive cycle with unanticipated perks. Writing code that matures efficiently has led to cross-department collaboration, improved logic, and proactive conversations on risks and benefits.
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