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Product Management

Technical Debt

Managing the unpredictable overhead that contributes to the total cost of ownership.

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Sjoerd Nijland
Aug 23, 2019 • 8 min read
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Summary

In a product's life cycle, there are often those technical imminent changes needed to improve the quality of the product dubbed as Technical Debt. They result in a scattered and distorted view of the product, poor decision-making, and draining of the product's value. Sjoerd Nijland slams these complexities as the evil monster in product development that comes to haunt developers and the entire Scrum team if not well managed. Read on what is Technical Debt and some of the ways that can be leveraged to manage it through the article.

Takeaways

  • Managing Technical Debt is one of the hardest challenges for a Scrum Team to overcome.
  • Technical Debt is attributed to poor design, architecture, or managerial decisions.
  • Technical Debt is the degree of complexity in a product that leads to a future cost to the product owner when trying to improve and extend the life of the product.
  • Technical Debt results in a scattered and distorted view of the product as well as poor decision-making among the Scrum team and the draining of value.

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