Footnotes

Chapter 1

1 Ward Cunningham is the first person I know of to refer to this as technical debt.

Chapter 4

1 I'm intentionally simplifying this example to illustrate a point. In reality, the price of a call is determined by many complex factors, including, but not limited to, tariffs and the time of day of the phone call. The telecommunications industry is a great case study of how both the marketect and a tarchitect must know the subtleties of the legal issues in creating the business model.

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