technical debt one way (good or bad ) to deal with it

Technical Debt: One way (good or bad?) to deal with it

Antonio Cobo @Mind_of_AC

What is the Technical debt?

“Technical debt is a concept in software development that reflects the implied cost of additional rework caused by choosing an easy solution now instead of using a better approach that would take longer.” - Wikipedia


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development

What Business think


What Devs think


Explain technical debt using business words


Impact on our customers

Impact on revenue


Add technical debt as new item in the backlog


Technical debt tickets will be prioritised alongside the stories and tasks


Agree with Product owner to add them to the sprint


Do you see a BIG risk here?


working agreements


dedicated percentage of time to repay your debt


percentage to be reviewed on retrospective


Show improvements in the demo


Boy Scout Rule

Leave the code you touch cleaner than the way you found it!


CODE REVIEW

Don’t approve technical debt added! Challenge and suggest improvements while reviewing


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Antonio Cobo

technical debt one way (good or bad ) to deal with it

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