How Do You Balance Feature Development and Technical Debt?
Explore how to effectively balance feature development and technical debt by prioritizing engineering tasks alongside business goals. Understand strategies to advocate for technical debt management within sprint planning and ensure cross-team alignment to maintain code quality and engineering excellence.
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Giving your team a good environment to foster engineering excellence is one key feature that boosts employee retention. Technical debt is very real, and you have to make sure you give your engineers a clean codebase to work with. However, this also differs from company to company. A start-up might have a messier codebase and might be willing to pay the technical debt to achieve their short-term goals, whereas an established company might be more concerned with their long-term bottom-line since they would be out of their survival phase. How you approach ...
