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Google Measures and Manages Tech Debt
Technical debt has haunted development teams for decades, yet remains surprisingly difficult to explain.
Just as a mortgage allows you to own a home before saving the full purchase price, strategic technical debt can help teams ship features faster when the business context demands it. The engineering workflow has a lot of “glue” work – e.g., manually running deployment steps, handling data migrations by hand, or continuously patching dependency issues. The key is to be deliberate: when you decide to implement a quick-and-dirty solution, document the assumption (e.g., a// TODO note with the owner and date or an entry in the debt register) and ideally set a trigger or timeline to revisit it.
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