We spoke to 300+ Engineering teams, including Snyk, Airbnb, and Intercom to learn the perfect process to manage technical debt.
This spreadsheet is a great place to start tracking your technical debt and gaining visibility into your technical projects.
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Maintenance of legacy systems and technical debt is the number one cause for productivity loss. |
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Companies who have a strategy for technical debt ship up to 50% faster. |
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The simplest and the most common way of tracking technical debt is by doing that in a tech debt spreadsheet. It will allow you to gain visibility on your technical issues and start a conversation on how to address them. |
“You can't just say 'the next sprint is going to be about refactoring'. It's a continuous effort. You create technical debt every day, so you need to deal with it on a daily basis too.”
Florian Gamper, CTO at LaserHub
“It's like real life, if you're not aware of your financial debt, your bank will call you one day and complain. In software development, it is your stakeholder, client, or whoever is paying the bill that's going to ask you these painful questions.”
Holger Steinhauer, Software Developer and Consultant