Technical debt audit
Get an exhaustive and actionable understanding of your technical debt
Deliverables
- Up to date list of technical debt items in your issue tracking system
- For each item, both impact/cost and remediation strategies are estimated
- Technical debt reduction recommendation priorities based on a cost/benefit analysis
- Additional recommendations on tools and practices for a well managed technical debt for your team
Data sources
- Interviews with engineering, ops, and technical support staff
- Internal technical group discussion transcripts
- Issue tracking system
- Production monitoring data
- All source code, including product, test, deployment and monitoring code, with version control history
- Continuous integration data : automated test, static analysis results,
- Architecture documentation
- Product requirements
- Product roadmap
Process
- Project scope and objectives definition
- Data collection
- Analysis
- Recommendation – prioritization of technical debt actions