Technical debt is like financial debt: sometimes necessary to move fast, but if unmanaged, interest drowns you.
How it accumulates
- Quick decisións to meet deadlines
- Lack of automated tests
- Duplicated code
- Postponed dependency updates
- No documentation
How to manage it
- Dedicate % of each sprint to refactoring
- Implement automated tests gradually
- Mandatory code reviews
- Update dependencies regularly
- Document architectural decisións
