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Technical Debt Management
1. Introduction to Technical Debt
2. Types of Technical Debt
3. Identifying Technical Debt
4. Measuring and Quantifying Technical Debt
5. Prioritizing Technical Debt Repayment
6. Management and Repayment Strategies
7. Tools for Technical Debt Management
8. Integrating Debt Management into the Development Lifecycle
9. Fostering a Culture of Quality
10. Advanced Topics in Technical Debt Management
4.
Measuring and Quantifying Technical Debt
4.1.
Estimating Remediation Cost
4.1.1.
Story Points or Ideal Days
4.1.1.1.
Relative Sizing Techniques
4.1.1.2.
Team-based Estimation
4.1.1.3.
Estimation Accuracy Improvement
4.1.2.
Time-Based Estimates
4.1.2.1.
Hourly or Daily Effort
4.1.2.2.
Historical Data for Reference
4.1.2.3.
Estimation Confidence Intervals
4.1.3.
Technical Debt Ratio
4.1.3.1.
Calculating TDR
4.1.3.2.
Interpreting TDR Results
4.1.3.3.
Industry Benchmarks
4.1.4.
Cost-Benefit Analysis
4.1.4.1.
Remediation Cost vs. Ongoing Interest
4.1.4.2.
Return on Investment Calculations
4.1.4.3.
Break-even Analysis
4.2.
Quantifying the Interest
4.2.1.
Tracking Time Spent on Bugs vs. Features
4.2.1.1.
Analyzing Support vs. Development Effort
4.2.1.2.
Time Allocation Metrics
4.2.2.
Measuring Impact on Feature Lead Time
4.2.2.1.
Delays Attributable to Debt
4.2.2.2.
Velocity Impact Analysis
4.2.3.
Correlating Debt with System Outages
4.2.3.1.
Incident Analysis
4.2.3.2.
Root Cause Attribution
4.2.3.3.
Downtime Cost Calculations
4.2.4.
Developer Productivity Metrics
4.2.4.1.
Code Completion Time
4.2.4.2.
Context Switching Overhead
4.2.4.3.
Rework Frequency
4.3.
Visualizing Technical Debt
4.3.1.
Hotspot Analysis
4.3.1.1.
Identifying High-Debt Areas
4.3.1.2.
Visualization Tools
4.3.1.3.
Heat Map Generation
4.3.2.
Code Quality Dashboards
4.3.2.1.
Real-time Metrics Display
4.3.2.2.
Customizable Views
4.3.2.3.
Trend Analysis
4.3.3.
Architectural Diagrams with Debt Annotations
4.3.3.1.
Marking Debt Locations
4.3.3.2.
Communicating Debt Visually
4.3.3.3.
Stakeholder-friendly Representations
4.3.4.
Debt Trend Analysis
4.3.4.1.
Historical Debt Accumulation
4.3.4.2.
Repayment Progress Tracking
4.3.4.3.
Forecasting Future Debt
4.4.
Benchmarking and Comparison
4.4.1.
Industry Standards
4.4.2.
Team Performance Baselines
4.4.3.
Cross-project Comparisons
4.4.4.
Maturity Assessment Models
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