Technical Debt Management

Technical debt management involves identifying, prioritizing, and systematically addressing accumulated shortcuts and suboptimal implementations in software codebases that impede future development velocity. Product managers and technical leaders use this skill to balance shipping new features with allocating engineering resources toward code refactoring, system upgrades, and infrastructure improvements that reduce long-term costs. This practice prevents technical issues from compounding into major obstacles that slow feature delivery, increase defect rates, and raise maintenance costs.

Technical Debt Management sits under Technical Product Management in the Product & Program Management domain of the Luminid skills catalogue.

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