You are leading an engineering roadmap where the team is under pressure to ship new customer-facing features, but the codebase also has growing technical debt that is slowing development and increasing operational risk. You need a clear way to decide when debt should be addressed now versus deferred in favor of feature work.
How do you prioritize technical debt against new feature development?
How you make explicit trade-offs between short-term feature value and long-term engineering healthHow you build a roadmap that includes both committed delivery and debt reductionHow you assess risk when debt affects reliability, security, or team velocityHow you align product, engineering, and business stakeholders with competing priorities