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How a CTO Uses Technical Debt Budgets to Manage Risk
Episode 113 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo unpacks how engineering leaders use 'technical debt budgets' — explicit allocations of team capacity for reducing complexity — rather than relying on gut feel or crisis-driven rewrites. Lucas and Luna examine a real-world case: a mid-market SaaS company whose CTO set a 20-percent capacity rule, tracked a single 'debt score' per service, and cut production incidents by 40 percent over two quarters. The hosts contrast this with the common trap of treating debt as a moral failing, and discuss how to communicate a budget approach to non-technical…
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