Managing Tech Debt 🧐

The Cost of Technical Debt

How much does technical debt cost your company? Let's look at what the research says about the real cost of technical debt and what companies need to do to save money and ship 50% faster.

The Engineer’s Complete Guide to Technical Debt

What is tech debt? How to manage it effectively? In this Engineer's Complete Guide to Technical Debt, you will learn metrics, statistics, and tools that help engineering teams accelerate the software development process.

How to deal with tech debt—Lessons learned from the best engineering teams

A few months ago, a random Twitter encounter led to me meeting the fantastic Janna Bastow as she was preparing her new talk: Decisions, Debt, and other Dilemmas. I was

Take the test: your 'tech debt credit score'

Tech debt is scary. It can be leveraged to ship faster, but is also completely inevitable and can kill your product—and therefore your company—if left unmanaged. Over the

How to convince people to deal with tech debt

Over the last six months, I’ve interviewed more than 200 top software engineers about tech debt. In this post—the first in a series which will crystallise my learnings from this experience— I'll share with you how the best in our field make the business case for any given piece of tech debt.

Lessons interviewing 200+ engineers: the perfect process to manage tech debt

Over the last six months, I’ve learned how the best software engineers and leaders manage technical debt. I've interviewed more than 200 experts, to understand how tech debt is handled at growing software companies.

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The Low Down On Promises

What exactly are promises? How, when and where would you use promises? And how does promise chaining work? We'll be answering all these questions right here.

How to be an Effective Boy/Girl-scout Engineer

Most engineers have heard of the 'boyscout rule': 'Always leave the code better than you found it.' But if it's that simple, why isn't everyone doing it, to curb tech debt once and for all? You guessed it, it's not that simple. So let's figure out why—and what we can do about it.

Track & pay back tech debt straight from VSCode

Identify, prioritise, and pay back technical debt using clear metrics. In today's fast moving world, we have to deliver software quickly and adapt to customer needs. But this means codebases

7 examples of sneaky tech debt and how to spot them

We'll share some examples of technical debt that we've spotted in the wild, to help you identify it in your own codebase—before it catches you off-guard.

How tech debt impacts everyone in the company

In this article, we'll go through the meta-problems caused by tech debt, and discuss exactly how they affect each area of any software business. This will give you the tools to alleviate a lot of the pressure your engineers have to deal with.

4 habits every engineering team needs to beat tech debt

There are plenty of ways to avoid the dreaded technical bankruptcy. To separate effective from ineffective solutions, we need to gain a deep understanding of the forces at play and their roots in sociology, criminology, and game theory.

The simple reasons tech debt is inevitable

Tech debt is just a thing that happens, right? We start writing code, tech debt accumulates, and bam, there's suddenly too much of it. But does it have to be like this? Are there some fundamental laws of software development that make it so? Can we bend these laws to our advantage?

What is Technical Debt, Really?

Everyone thinks they know what technical debt is...But what is it really? And, more importantly, how does it impact your organization?

3 tech debt metrics every engineer should know

Looking to measure technical debt? Here are the top 3 tech debt metrics you should be measuring.

How to stop wasting engineering time on technical debt

You know how it is. It’s already hard enough to squeeze everything you need into a sprint without trying to find an extra 10%–20% of engineering time to pay back technical debt. If you’ve ever argued for carving out time for this, you know that it can feel like a crusade of epic proportions.

The one cultural characteristic you need for a healthy codebase

It’s easy to pay lip service to company culture. But few companies actively consider those few cultural characteristics that make a meaningful difference to performance—because that’s the

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