Managing Technical Debt

Tech companies and engineering teams often struggle with an accumulation of technical debt - the implied cost of additional work caused by choosing an easy software solution now instead of using a better approach that would take longer. This debt burdens teams down the line.

Some potential ways we could help tech professionals better manage technical debt:

• Build a platform to automatically track, measure, and visualize accumulating technical debt across codebases

• Offer automated code analysis and remediation tools to address common sources of technical debt like duplication

• Provide monitoring and alerts when predefined technical debt thresholds are exceeded, triggering a review

• Suggest standardized processes around appropriate times to accrue and pay down technical debt

• Promote training and guidelines for quantifying tech debt impact when making architectural decisions

• Recommend team workflows and backlog prioritization rules-of-thumb to combat technical debt creep

The goal would be equipping engineers, architects, and tech leaders to proactively govern technical debt, strategically prioritize addressing high-impact accumulated debt, and develop more sustainable long-term codebases. This can dramatically improve team productivity over time.