Workshops
A shared and deep understanding of the mechanics and management principles of technical debt is a pre-requisite to a well managed software portfolio. These 2 highly customizable workshops will give you this shared knowledge and the tools to act on it.
Product and business leaders
Technical debt is a business problem. This workshop will help your business make use of technical debt while avoiding its pitfalls, by developing the following skills
- Estimate the total impact of technical debt on the business
- Recognize symptoms of technical debt
- Define actionable technical debt KPIs
- Manage technical debt within your planning processes
- Encourage a technical debt aware culture
- Recognize when technical debt should be used, and how to make is safe
Content outline
- Discussion about recognizing, itemizing, estimating and prioritizing technical debt
- Overview of technical debt management tools
- Activity : build a technical debt reduction business case for a real life scenario
- Discussion about habits for a better managed and safely leveraged technical debt
Indicative duration : 3-6 hours
Tailored for tech, product and business leaders
Engineers
As an engineer, you are intimately aware of many unwanted impacts of technical debt. You likely suffer from them almost every day. This workshop is intended to givre you the tools to reduce these pains, by mastering the following skills:
- Have a deep and shared understanding of what technical debt is, and how it sneaks up on you
- Minimize unintentional technical debt
- Identify, estimate, and manage technical debt items effectively
- Communicate technical debt concerns to non-technical leaders
- Build a technical debt reduction business case so that it makes it to the product roadmap
- Recognize situations in which technical debt should be used
Content outline
Presentations, hands-on activities and discussions about the following topics :
- technical debt definition, landscape, symptoms, causes
- Unintentional technical debt – best practices and tools
- Itemizing, estimating and prioritizing technical debt
- Building a technical debt reduction business case for a real life scenario
- When creating technical debt is the right thing to do, and how to manage it
Indicative duration : 1-2 days
Tailored for development, QA, and devops engineers, and engineering leaders