
Identifying Unrecorded Technical Labor In Software Engineering
Unrecorded technical labor occurs when software maintenance is absorbed through discretionary personal hours, disguising platform debt and distorting capacity metrics.

Unrecorded technical labor occurs when software maintenance is absorbed through discretionary personal hours, disguising platform debt and distorting capacity metrics.
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