You are leading an engineering team that needs to keep shipping customer-facing improvements while a growing amount of technical debt is slowing development, increasing defects, and making incidents harder to resolve. Product wants visible feature progress, while engineering is pushing for time to address reliability and maintainability issues before they become more expensive.
How would you balance technical debt against the need to deliver new features?
How you make explicit trade-offs between short-term delivery and long-term healthHow you build a roadmap that includes both feature work and debt reductionHow you assess risk and use data to prioritize debtHow you align stakeholders with competing incentives