Your question is Balance Debt and Feature Delivery. Take a moment with it on the right.
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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.
How do you balance technical debt against feature delivery on your team?