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[EN] A Quick and Complete Guide to Measuring Your Tech Debt and Using the Results
[ES] Una Guía Rápida y Completa para Medir tu Deuda Técnica y Utilizar los Resultados

Video: Measuring Technical Debt Effectively

Anton Kazakov

Mentorship available

This Talk discusses the measurement and interpretation of tech lead, focusing on tech debt. Tech debt is a tool to temporarily speed up development but can have negative consequences if not managed properly. Various tech debt metrics, including heuristic metrics and second-tier metrics, can help identify and manage tech debt. Tech debt interest is crucial for measuring the impact of tech debt and allows for prioritization. It is important to collect and analyze tech debt metrics to ensure software and team health.

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The two types of tech debt are maintenance tech debt and continuous tech debt.

Continuous tech debt is immediately problematic as soon as it is deployed to production, leading to issues like bugs, downtime, and security breaches.

Heuristic metrics include cyclomatic code complexity, code duplication, code smells, maintainability index, tech debt ratio, and heuristically detectable security issues.

Second-tier tech debt metrics are metrics influenced by tech debt, such as effort split between ad hoc support and features, cycle time for feature tickets, bug trends, and software uptime.

Tech debt interest is the additional effort spent on tasks due to tech debt, calculated by comparing the effort required with and without tech debt.

The primary topic is measuring tech debt and interpreting the results.

Tech debt is a tool to temporarily speed up development by cutting corners, at the expense of slowing down later.

Teams can collect tech debt interest by logging time spent on tickets, estimating effort without tech debt, and regularly updating this information in their issue tracker.

Second-tier metrics are important because they show the impact of tech debt elimination efforts and are essential for tracking overall team and software health.

The speaker is Anton, a director of engineering at Westing in Germany and a mentor and coach for engineering leaders.

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Anton Kazakov

27 min

09 Mar, 2023

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