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Your Guide to Proactive Tech Debt Management | Harness Resource | Harness

Whether it’s tackling legacy code, accumulated bugs, or outdated libraries and dependencies, cleaning up tech debt is a reality that every engineering manager will face at some point. But gathering momentum is tough: demands to deliver new products and features faster, developers’ preoccupation with the “shiny and new”, and the challenge of unravelling years of complexity can often mean tech debt is addressed only when it becomes a critical business concern.

With 70% of organizations reporting that tech debt impacts their ability to innovate, and AI-generated code compounding the issue further, those that can implement a systematic approach to managing tech debt stand to improve business agility and gain an advantage over competitors.

Join us for this webinar, as our expert panel shares how they stay ahead of tech debt in their organizations; the strategies they used to identify, measure and curtail it, and how to build a culture that recognizes the importance of balancing speed with stability.

Key takeaways:

  • How to adopt a proactive approach to tackling tech debt
  • Defining and conquering your highest value fixes
  • Understanding AI’s relationship to tech debt: where it hurts and where it can help

Published
January 1, 2024

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What you'll learn

Key Takeaways

Tech debt extends beyond unfamiliar code

Technical debt encompasses outdated architecture, deployment pipelines, security dependencies, and inefficient team processes. It is not simply code written by someone else.

Engineers must champion technical debt resolution

Development teams should take radical ownership of technical debt and treat its resolution as non-negotiable. Engineers are ultimately accountable for the health of the systems they maintain.

Score technical debt to prioritize effectively

Assigning a specific priority or score to technical debt items helps organizations balance maintenance with new feature delivery. This ensures critical updates are not indefinitely postponed.

Leverage AI for remediation and comprehension

Artificial intelligence tools can accelerate tech debt management by auto-remediating security vulnerabilities and generating pull requests. They are also highly effective at explaining undocumented legacy code.

Approach complete system rewrites with caution

Rewriting code simply to use the latest frameworks often yields little visible impact for the product. Major rewrites should be reserved for severely outdated or insecure dependencies and executed carefully.