A retrospective meeting addresses what went well and what didn’t. It’s an open stage to share feedback without placing blame. It would be best if you focused on improvement.

Benefit: You can use retrospective meetings to share updates about the code. Engineers can show what...

Tracking technical debt in the editor allows engineers to:

• Get full visibility on technical debt
• See context for each codebase issue
• Reduce context switching
• Solve technical debt continuously

Benefit: Developers already spend most of...

• Startups can easily solve technical debt by implementing automated tools that verify code quality.
• Large enterprises need to use project management tools to understand which features are in development and who’s working on specific areas of the codebase.
• They should use autom...

Code debt is about writing bad code and not fixing this in time. For instance, a developer wants to quickly merge code without writing sufficient tests or adhering to code standards.

Many organizations use automation tools such as pre-commit hooks with code linting to verify code quality. W...

Technical debt refers to a rushed development process or a lack of shared knowledge among team members. However, in many cases, technical debt is inevitable and is part of a normal software development process.

The negative impact of technical debt on businesses is massive....

Imagine two software engineers have worked on a new feature. They own all knowledge about this specific feature. However, other software engineers in your team don't have this knowledge. When they have to work on this feature or have to do an implementation that makes use of this feature, they wo...

A refactoring week allows your team to resolve open bugs, evaluate the current architecture, and prepare the architecture for the upcoming product features.

 Benefit: A refactoring week gives the needed breathing room for developers to evaluate and reflect on the code befor...

Leaving technical debt unaddressed can result in several issues for your organisation, such as higher total cost of ownership, slower time to market, reduced agility because of a poorly designed architecture, and poor security.

Make sure to have a process that makes it easy to share knowled...