Problem
Scenario
You are advising a company whose product is growing, but the engineering team is spending more time on bugs, slow releases, and brittle systems. Leadership wants a clear way to think about technical debt without freezing product progress.
Question
How do you think about technical debt in the context of a growing product?
What is at stake
The team needs to keep shipping while avoiding a future slowdown. The answer should show how to decide which debt to fix now, which debt to accept, and how to make that choice repeatable.
Signals to look for
- Feature delivery is getting slower
- Incidents or bugs are rising
- Engineers are spending time on rework
- Important roadmap items are blocked by old architecture
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