07 Jun 2022
How to include refactoring into product development roadmap? Reducing technical debt inspired by real options identification
Nowadays, technical debt can be considered the bread and butter of most IT-powered enterprises around the world. Almost every company that survived the startup phase and managed to deliver its first products to customers will face at some point technical challenges related to past architectural decisions. Although code engineering gets better every year, we cannot argue with the obvious fact of life: the market will always force many of us to deliver tech products faster than we wish. Time To Market has always been a key success factor for many product companies and it puts a lot of pressure on Engineering to keep up with challenging deadlines.