You are the engineering manager for a product team at a B2B SaaS platform. The team owns a core workflow that is growing quickly, but the codebase has accumulated technical debt and the next two quarters include several revenue-linked feature requests. Leadership wants faster delivery, while engineers are warning that the current architecture is slowing the team down and increasing defect risk.
How do you decide whether the team should invest in refactoring versus shipping new features?
You are the engineering manager for a product team at a B2B SaaS platform. The team owns a core workflow that is growing quickly, but the codebase has accumulated technical debt and the next two quarters include several revenue-linked feature requests. Leadership wants faster delivery, while engineers are warning that the current architecture is slowing the team down and increasing defect risk.
How do you decide whether the team should invest in refactoring versus shipping new features?
