We’ve all seen it.
The sprint burndown chart looks great. Every story is marked “done.” The team hit 40 story points for the third week in a row. And yet… nothing meaningful shipped. The product owner is frustrated. The engineers are burned out. Leadership is asking for “more velocity.” And nobody really knows what that means anymore.
Technical debt has been described in a lot of ways—a ticking time bomb, a hidden liability, a creeping rot under the surface of a product. The metaphor you choose doesn’t matter. What matters is this: if you don’t address it, tech debt will eventually slow you down, frustrate your engineers, and limit your company’s ability to scale.
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