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🧭 Engineering Leadership · Team Process

Manage tech debt as a portfolio

Classify debt by interest rate, allocate fixed capacity, and tie paydown to business risk.

advanced~35 minEngineering ManagersTech LeadsStaff Engineers

Steps

  1. 1Inventory debts with interest rate: how much slower/costlier per month?
  2. 2Tag principal risk: what breaks if this component fails?
  3. 3Allocate 15-20% sprint capacity permanently, protected
  4. 4Bundle paydown with adjacent feature work where paths cross
  5. 5Kill dead code aggressively; deletion is the cheapest fix
  6. 6Report debt burn-down alongside features to leadership

Common Pitfalls

  • ▲Debt weeks that become bug-fix weeks
  • ▲Rewrite fantasies instead of incremental strangling

Commands

Install with skills CLI
$ npx skills add aniruddhaadak80/skills --skill team-process-tech-debt-strategy
Install globally
$ npx skills add aniruddhaadak80/skills --skill team-process-tech-debt-strategy -g

Tags

#tech-debt#strategy#maintenance#engineering-leadership#team-process

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