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Discussion on: How I can estimate the manhours that maintainance of a bad code costs?

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Keff

You could look into Tech debt, there are ways of calculating how much time it will cost.

Check this post out medium.com/the-andela-way/what-tec...

If you search on dev.to, there are a lot of posts about this topic, see dev.to/search?q=tech%20debt

There are also some tools to do it automatically depending on the language as well.

Side note: I'm currently working on a project that was handed to us, that has something like 3yr tech debt on a 1yr project xD