Managing Tech Debt

How to Prioritise Your Product Backlog

Every person in your company probably has a different opinion about what's the company's biggest priority. But which project should be prioritised? Fortunately, there are great methods to help you prioritise your product backlog.

The Engineer’s Complete Guide to Code Quality

There are lots of ways you can improve your code quality, make it easier to review and test and reduce the pain later of having to fix all of the errors. Let's take a look.

What Lies Beneath Hard Work: Code Churn

What is code churn, how to measure it, and what insights can it provide about your code quality and team performance? Learn in this article.

Big Announcement: Stepsize Is Now Free For Engineering Teams

Big news! Stepsize now has a free plan for Engineering teams to track and prioritise technical debt.

The Engineer’s Complete Guide to Improving Velocity

In this article, you’ll learn what velocity means in the context of an agile/scrum methodology and how you can improve it to allow your team to move faster and ship more stuff.

How to Maintain a Healthy Codebase while Shipping Fast

We're used to thinking that you cannot deliver fast and maintain a healthy codebase. But does it really have to be a trade-off?

Technical Debt: An Interview with Adam Tornhill

Last week we hosted a webinar where Alex Omeyer interviewed Adam Tornhill about technical debt: what is it, why is it important, and how to manage it effectively.

The Ultimate Engineer's Guide to Code Refactoring

In this guide, you’ll learn all about refactoring source code: the benefits, challenges, tools, and best practices, and what is the difference between refactoring and technical debt.

Calculate The Cost Of Your Technical Debt

The technical debt calculator will tell you how much your company spends on technical debt each year.

On-Demand Webinar: Technical Debt with Adam Tornhill and Alex Omeyer

In this Ask Me Anything webinar, we discussed some of the most common & controversial topics around technical debt together with the two technical debt rockstars: Adam Tornhill and Alex Omeyer.

Tools to Track and Manage Technical Debt

If you are looking for a tool to start managing technical debt this article will help you make the right decision. We will look at the tools to track small, medium, and large pieces of debt and the process to reduce technical debt.

Technical Debt Horror Stories

Here is our collection of the scariest and the most entertaining tech debt stories.

How Product Managers Can Help Reduce Technical Debt

Learn 7 actionable strategies that will help you prevent and respond to technical debt.

On-Demand Webinar: How to Prioritize Technical Debt as a Product Manager

In this webinar, we discuss the most practical way of prioritizing technical debt.

6 Reasons to Start Managing Technical Debt in 2021

Setting your 2021 business goals? Here are 6 reasons why managing technical debt should be part of your plan.

The Cost of Technical Debt

How much does technical debt cost your company? Let's look at what the research says about the real cost of technical debt.

The Engineer’s Complete Guide to Technical Debt

In this guide, you'll learn metrics, statistics and tools that help engineering teams accelerate the software development process.

[Webinar] How to deal with tech debt—Lessons learned from the best engineering teams

In this webinar, you will learn to define tech debt and the tactics for dealing with small, medium, and large pieces of tech debt.

Take the test: your 'tech debt credit score'

Take the 1-minute test to see how close you are to technical bankruptcy.

How to convince people to deal with tech debt

In this post, I'll share with you how the best in our field make the business case for any given piece of tech debt.

Lessons interviewing 200+ engineers: the perfect process to manage tech debt

In last six months, I've interviewed more than 200 experts, to understand how tech debt is handled at growing software companies.

How to be an Effective Boy/Girl-scout Engineer

Always leave the code better than you found it - it's that simple, yet not everyone is doing it. Let's figure out why.

Track & pay back tech debt straight from VSCode

Identify, prioritise, and pay back technical debt using clear metrics.

7 examples of sneaky tech debt and how to spot them

Some examples of tech debt we've spotted in the wild, to help you identify it in your codebase before it catches you off-guard.

How tech debt impacts everyone in the company

We go through the meta-problems caused by tech debt, and discuss exactly how they affect each area of any software business.

4 habits every engineering team needs to beat tech debt

The simple reasons tech debt is inevitable

What is Technical Debt, Really?

Everyone thinks they know what technical debt is, but what is it really? And how does it impact your organization?

3 tech debt metrics every engineer should know

Looking to measure technical debt? Here are the top 3 tech debt metrics you should be measuring.

How to stop wasting engineering time on technical debt

If you’ve ever argued for carving out time for this, you know that it can feel like a crusade of epic proportions.

The one cultural characteristic you need for a healthy codebase

Let's look at the types of an engineering culture of code ownership and why it is so important.