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Welcome to Technical Debt for Policymakers

Welcome to Technical Debt for Policymakers. What you’ll find here are resources, insights, and conversations of interest to policymakers who are concerned with managing technical debt within their organizations. Read more…

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Recent Posts

Automation-assisted technical debt retirement

When we retire technical debt from assets, service disruptions might be necessary. Automating some procedures can minimize those disruptions and avoid errors and rework. [More]

Controlling incremental technical debt

Organizations are more likely to gain control of their legacy technical debt portfolio if they begin by controlling the transformation of incremental technical debt into legacy technical debt. [More]

Retiring localizable technical debt

Technical debt that appears as discrete chunks—localizable technical debt—is more readily retired, because we can do it incrementally, piece by piece. It’s a particularly manageable challenge. [More]

Legacy technical debt retirement decisions

Technical debt retirement decisions are difficult and reach far beyond engineering to strategy, organizational forms, budget, staff, timing, and pace. Strategic decisions, as usual, provide the greatest leverage. [More]

Rules of engagement for auxiliary technical debt

When retiring one kind of technical debt from an asset, auxiliary technical debt is any other kind of technical debt in the asset. It can be tempting to try to retire auxiliary technical debt too. Sometimes that’s wise, but it can lead to scope creep. Rules of engagement can control this temptation. [More]

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