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How to Evaluate an Engineering Team's Technical Debt
Lucas and Luna explore how technical debt accumulates in engineering teams and, more importantly, how to measure and prioritize it. Drawing on a real case from a Series B fintech startup, they discuss the 'debt-to-asset ratio' for codebases, why most teams measure the wrong things, and how one CTO convinced her board to allocate 20% of engineering capacity to reducing debt — without slowing down product velocity. The episode covers the difference between deliberate and inadvertent debt, the 'interest rate' analogy applied to legacy systems, and a concrete framework for deciding when to…
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