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Manage Technical Debt Deliberately

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Problem

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You’re leading an engineering team with a growing backlog of technical debt. Product and business partners want continued feature delivery, but you know some debt is starting to slow development, increase incidents, and create risk if left unaddressed.

Question

What is your approach to managing technical debt?

What This Tests

  • How you assess and prioritize technical debt
  • How you make roadmap trade-offs against feature work
  • How you align stakeholders with competing priorities
  • How you reduce delivery and reliability risk