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Technical debt audit

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