You're advising an engineering leader whose team is under pressure to ship roadmap commitments, while unresolved technical debt is making development slower and riskier over time. Leadership wants a clear way to decide when to pay down debt versus when to keep pushing near term delivery.
How do you think about balancing long-term technical debt against near-term delivery pressure?
Near-term launches create real delivery pressureTechnical debt shows up indirectly through slower velocity and higher riskNot all debt has equal business impactThe trade-off must be explained in terms leadership will support