Tag: technical debt

Sep 08
Technical Debt Strategy: How to Prioritize and Pay Down a Trillion Dollar Problem

Quick answer: A technical debt strategy is a repeatable system for measuring debt, prioritizing which debt to fix first, and funding paydown work every sprint instead of during rare cleanup sprints. It combines metrics like technical debt ratio, prioritization frameworks like WSJF, and a protected budget of engineering capacity. Introduction Every engineering leader eventually hits […]