Managing Technical Debt in Growing Products
Technical debt describes shortcuts and old decisions in a codebase that slow down future work. Every product has some debt, but unmanaged debt eventually makes even small features painful to deliver.
Managing it means being intentional. Track known issues, set aside time in each release to improve core parts of the system and avoid quick fixes that will obviously cause problems later. Good automated tests make it safer to refactor and reduce debt.
Business and engineering teams should talk openly about debt so decisions balance short term speed with long term stability.
