How would you frame technical debt for your manager's business case?
This tests translating debt into business risk and cost of delay. A strong answer quantifies velocity drag, proposes phased remediation via WSJF or capacity allocation, and offers roadmap trade-offs.
This tests translating technical debt into business risk, cost of delay, and delivery drag instead of engineering grievances. A strong answer quantifies the debt's impact on velocity, defect rates, or incident probability, frames remediation using WSJF or capacity allocation like 20 percent of the backlog, and presents explicit roadmap trade-offs with risk acceptance for deferral. Red flag: demanding a feature freeze or describing debt in technical terms like bad code or refactoring with no connection to business outcomes.
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