List: Tech Debt | Curated by Greg Billington

Apr 10, 2023
20 stories
Tech Debt
Irene Yu
Technical Debt: Preventing, Managing, Fixing for PMsLearn how to prevent, manage, and fix technical debt as a product manager.
Mar 30, 2023
Mar 30, 2023
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Serious Scrum
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David Pereira
How to Deal With Tech Debt EffectivelyIgnoring tech debt is the right way of building a product no developer wants to work with.
Aug 25, 2021
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Aug 25, 2021
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Agile Insider
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Alex Omeyer
What Do Engineers Think about Technical Debt?My team at Stepsize has surveyed 200+ Engineers and published the State of Technical Debt 2021 Report that explores the impact of tech debt…
Aug 12, 2021
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Aug 12, 2021
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Better Programming
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Marc H. Weiner
When To Throw in the Towel on Your Technical DebtDon’t get caught in migration hell
Jul 27, 2021
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Jul 27, 2021
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Humans of Xero
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Ryan Djurovich
You don’t need to stop shipping features to fix technical debtThe easiest way to solve Technical Debt  + a framework to help you explain Technical Debt and convince decision makers to let you work on…
Apr 16, 2020
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Apr 16, 2020
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The Ready
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Aaron Dignan
How To Eliminate Organizational DebtThe debt that’s crippling your company isn’t on your balance sheet. Here’s what to do about it.
Jun 30, 2016
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Jun 30, 2016
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YounitedTech
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Nicholas Suter
A philosophy of technical debt managementNo more  “We don’t have time to refactor”, please!
Jun 24, 2020
Jun 24, 2020
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Better Programming
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Ben Rogojan
Chernobyl: The True Cost Of Technical DebtA comparison of technical debt in the Chernobyl disaster and software development
Jun 5, 2019
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Jun 5, 2019
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Eric Higgins
Technical Debt Is Like TetrisYou can’t win. You can only control how quickly you lose.
Mar 9, 2019
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Mar 9, 2019
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Gabriel Colombo
How to deal with technical debt and save your sanityWhen was the last time you found yourself working in a file containing 7,000+ lines of code?
Jul 29, 2017
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Jul 29, 2017
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The Startup
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Assaf Weinberg
What Product Managers Can Do About Technical DebtIf you‘re a Product manager, then you’ve probably heard developers talking about “code debt” or “technical debt”. It gets brought up a lot…
Jun 21, 2020
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Jun 21, 2020
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Level Up Coding
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Fayner Brack
How To Use Technical Debt In Your FavorTechnical Debt is inevitable, only you can reduce the interest to be paid
Mar 15, 2018
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Mar 15, 2018
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Carl Tashian
Managing Technical DebtMany linear feet of books have been written about the complexity of software development, estimation, cost control, QA, and so on.
Mar 17, 2017
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Mar 17, 2017
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Serious Scrum
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Willem-Jan Ageling
How ignoring technical debt nearly destroyed a bank’s reputationAnd ruined a team
Feb 2, 2020
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Feb 2, 2020
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The Andela Way
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Daniel Okwufulueze
What Technical Debt Is And How It’s MeasuredThere’s this saying that there’s more than one way to crack an egg. It goes without saying that this concept applies to software…
Feb 20, 2019
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Feb 20, 2019
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Serious Scrum
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Maarten Dalmijn
Working without Sprint Goals guarantees technical debtHow friction prevents perfect plans and demands the scope of your Sprint to be flexible
Mar 3, 2020
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Mar 3, 2020
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AppsFlyer Engineering
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Adi Belan
Three Tips for Managing Technical Debt: While Maintaining Developer Velocity (and Sanity)Technical debt is well-known to every developer. No good app starts as a legacy app with spaghetti code — it takes a journey to get there…
Dec 17, 2018
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Dec 17, 2018
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Better Programming
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Alex Omeyer
The Perfect Process to Manage Technical DebtLessons from interviewing 200+ engineers
Sep 21, 2020
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Sep 21, 2020
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Understanding Tech Debt
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Alex Omeyer
7 examples of sneaky tech debt and how to spot themAt Stepsize, helping high-growth software companies measure and manage technical debt is our business. And this means we get to spend our…
Oct 2, 2019
Oct 2, 2019