Technical Debt Management Program
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A Technical Debt Management Program is a organizational program to manage and reduce their technical debt.
- Context:
- It can (often) involve assessment of Technical Debt Measure.
- It can range from being a Project-Level Debt Reduction Program to being an Organizational-Level Debt Reduction Program.
- It can be part of a broader Software Quality Assurance or Software Maintenance Program.
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- Example(s):
- Software Refactoring Initiative: A systematic effort to improve the codebase without altering its external behavior.
- Code Review Process: A practice where developers review each other's code to find and fix technical debt early.
- Automated Testing Implementation: Adding comprehensive test coverage can ensure that debt reduction efforts do not introduce new bugs.
- Continuous Integration Program: can help to catch and reduce technical debt by ensuring that the code is always in a releasable state.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- A New Feature Development Program: Focusing primarily on developing new features without considering the reduction of technical debt.
- A Cost-Cutting Program: Prioritizing cost reduction could sometimes lead to an increase in technical debt due to compromised quality.
- See: Technical Debt, Refactoring, Code Review, Automated Testing, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment.