Stop using ‘tech debt’ to refer to anything old

For a few years now, I have noticed a variety of people misusing the term “technical debt,” incorrectly applying it to almost anything that needs to be updated. Despite Shakespeare’s disregard for the importance of naming (“A CIO by any other name would still be ignored”), naming is strategically vital in enterprise IT. This is not just the complaints of a cranky journalist shaking his fist and yelling, “Words have meaning, darn it!” It is seriously an issue.