Problem
Scenario
You are leading an engineering team that is under pressure to ship customer-facing features while a growing amount of technical debt is slowing development and increasing operational risk. Product wants faster delivery, engineers are raising concerns about reliability and maintainability, and leadership expects you to make visible progress on both.
Question
How do you balance technical debt against feature delivery on your team?
What Makes This Hard
- Technical debt is affecting both reliability and development speed
- Stakeholders value different outcomes and timelines
- Not all debt is equally urgent or equally valuable to fix
- You need a repeatable prioritization approach, not ad hoc exceptions
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