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UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF TECHNICAL DEBT ON THE CAPACITY AND VELOCITY OF TEAMS AND ORGANIZATIONS Ken Power, Cisco Systems, Galway, Ireland
4th International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt (MTD 2013)
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Options for Investing Capacity
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Balanced Investments Investment(of(Team(Capacity(
Technical)Debt)
Quality)Debt)
Features)
Spike)Tests)
Research)
Planning)
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Unbalanced Investments Investment(of(Team(Capacity(
Technical)Debt)
Quality)Debt)
Features)
Spike)Tests)
Research)
Planning)
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Planned v Unplanned Technical Debt
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Insufficient Investment in Debt Reduction
40%$
17%$5%$
38%$
Combined)Feature)Team)Sprint)8)Capacity)Alloca7on)
Features$$
Performance/$Robustness$
Technical$Debt$
Defects$
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Mounting Debt Impacts Velocity
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When Failure Demand Dominates Throughput
Failure Demand
Value Demand
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Planned v Actual Debt Reduction
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Technical Debt Impacts Organization Capacity
Business Unit
Product
Team Team
Product
Team Team Team
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Conclusions • Visualize Technical Debt • Articulate debt reduction strategies • Consider each strategy as an option • Quantify the impact and benefit of each option • Understand the effect on team, product and organization
velocity • Understand the effect on team, product and organization
capacity
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Thank You! • My day job
• Co-Founder, Agile Office at Cisco • Internal Agile & Lean Consultant
• Extra-curricular activities • Fellow of the Lean Systems Society (http://LeanSystemsSociety.org/) • Award-winning publications in Agile and Lean product development • Frequent speaker at major international Agile and Lean conferences • Involved in organizing international Agile and Lean conferences • Industry/academic collaborative research on Agile and Lean software development • Lean Startup Mentor
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