Tag: Technical Debt

Technical debt is swallowing the roadmap and every refactor feels like a fight.

Margaret-Anne Storey's article proposing a triple debt model of technical, cognitive, and intent debt for reasoning about software health in the age of AI.

Make an economic case for pursuing a process improvement or driving down toil using back of the envelope math.

Martin Fowler's two-by-two matrix classifying technical debt by intent (deliberate vs. inadvertent) and discipline (reckless vs. prudent).

A hands-on workshop that teaches engineering teams to reframe technical debt as strategic investment, build economic cases for paying it down, and manage a portfolio of incremental technical improvements.