Developing and Delivering Products Professionally [P2]: Managing Technical Risk - Slaying technical debt

Question 1

Explain the wall of debt technique to slay TD over time

Answer 1

• Make a “wall of tech debt”
  
  • pick stickies - alarming, ugly
  • clear TD product backlog items
• Take TD related items into the new sprint
• Incrementally eliminating TD
• NOTE: still delivering value - not just doing TD items
• Adding more stickies when find more TD as you go
• Eventually knocking down the TD wall
• Increase quality over time