Member-only story
Unleashing Engineering Excellence: Proven Methods to Tackle Tech Debt and Supercharge Your Engineering Team
A head of engineering’s guide to conquering tech debt and empowering engineering excellence
The story usually begins like this. At some point in your career as a senior tech leader in tech companies, be it a CTO VP Engineering or Head of Engineering, you inherit a hard-working team who had been busy shipping feature after feature for months and years. The same engineering team is now frustrated at their inability to move fast.
What seemed like innocent patches and workarounds are slowing them down because engineers are now spending more time trying to get around those workarounds and adding more patches whenever they need to change their codebases and add new features.
Unfortunately, this story is not new. The reason for this is also not unusual — it’s because the engineering team had incurred tech debt.
One might say — when there is debt, you pay it back. Yes, precisely. But how might an engineering leader rally everyone together to pay back said tech debt systematically and effectively?
Today, I’ll share a few of my proven methods for reducing tech debt via a program. Let’s call it an Engineering…
