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How One CTO Uses Product Thinking to Reduce Tech Debt
Most engineering leaders frame tech debt as a technical problem to be refactored. But what if the root cause is actually a product strategy gap? In this episode, Lucas and Luna look at how one CTO at a mid-sized SaaS company stopped treating tech debt as a code quality issue and started treating it as a product design issue. They walk through the concrete framework he used — mapping every recurring maintenance ticket back to a feature that was built without a product owner, then killing or redesigning those features instead of rewriting the code. The result: 40% less unplanned work in six…
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