Technical debt is usually a result of poor planning, a misunderstanding of requi...

Technical debt is usually a result of poor planning, a misunderstanding of requirements or complete lack of requirements, or trying to do too much when you should have built an MVP with limited scope.

I think the SE Radio episode on Technical Debt http://www.se-radio.net/2015/04/episode-224-sven-johann-and-...

Does a good job of explaining why technical debt occurs, how to avoid it and when technical debt is ok.

I strongly recommend everyone listen to this episode. It's quite insightful.