The Link Between Software And Broken Windows
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The most significant accelerator of software degradation is the team’s working culture. Even minor flaws in a project’s code base can cause the working culture to deteriorate and hence drive software degradation.
This blog post is about the link between software and broken windows (no, not the operating system – literally a window, you know, the sort of window you can look out of) and what this link means for us as software developers.