The Tech Debt Dilemma
Read the scenario, evaluate the stakeholder trade-offs, and choose how you would lead this decision as a Product Manager.
Your engineering team wants to dedicate an entire upcoming sprint to refactoring a critical part of the codebase. This will address growing tech debt and improve performance, but it means delaying the launch of a new, highly-requested integration by two weeks.
Stakeholder Perspectives
“Our velocity is grinding to a halt because of this debt. If we don't fix it now, all future features will be slower and buggier. It's a ticking time bomb.”
“Our biggest customer is threatening to churn if we don't deliver this integration on the promised date. The delay is a huge relationship risk.”
“I trust your judgment, but remember that the market won't wait for us. We need to maintain our feature momentum.”
What would you do?
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