Technical Debt Management

  1. Integrating Debt Management into the Development Lifecycle
    1. Agile Methodologies
      1. Incorporating Debt into the Backlog
        1. Creating Debt Stories or Tasks
          1. Prioritizing Debt Items
            1. Backlog Grooming for Debt
            2. Role of the Product Owner
              1. Balancing Features and Debt Repayment
                1. Advocating for Quality
                  1. Stakeholder Communication
                  2. Using Spike Stories for Investigation
                    1. Researching Debt Solutions
                      1. Time-boxed Exploration
                        1. Knowledge Acquisition
                        2. Discussing Debt in Sprint Planning and Retrospectives
                          1. Identifying New Debt
                            1. Reviewing Progress on Debt Reduction
                              1. Action Item Generation
                              2. Scrum Master Responsibilities
                                1. Facilitating Debt Discussions
                                  1. Removing Impediments
                                    1. Process Improvement
                                    2. Definition of Ready for Debt Items
                                      1. Acceptance Criteria
                                        1. Effort Estimation
                                          1. Impact Assessment
                                        2. DevOps Culture
                                          1. Automating Quality Checks in Pipelines
                                            1. Static Analysis in CI/CD
                                              1. Automated Testing
                                                1. Quality Gate Enforcement
                                                2. Shared Responsibility for Quality
                                                  1. Cross-functional Team Involvement
                                                    1. Blameless Postmortems
                                                      1. Collective Code Ownership
                                                      2. Infrastructure as Code
                                                        1. Configuration Management
                                                          1. Environment Consistency
                                                            1. Automated Provisioning
                                                          2. Waterfall and Traditional Methodologies
                                                            1. Phase-based Debt Management
                                                              1. Quality Assurance Integration
                                                                1. Documentation Requirements
                                                                  1. Change Control Processes
                                                                  2. Lean Software Development
                                                                    1. Waste Elimination
                                                                      1. Value Stream Mapping
                                                                        1. Continuous Improvement
                                                                          1. Just-in-time Refactoring

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