Slides to support the Interesting Technical Debt meetup created by AWA coaches - Kevin Burke and Josh D'Jelal. This workshop's outcomes: Attendees will be able to describe what technical debt is. What's the biggest causes of technical debt. The difference between Good and Bad technical debt. How to motivate a team to address their technical debt. What is technical debt? Technical debt similar to financial debt. If you don't control your debt, the repayments grow and prevent you from taking opportunities. Sometimes debt is unavoidable but if it's managed correctly you can use it to your advantage. see the meetup page for more details https://www.meetup.com/AdventuresWithAgile/events/247609712/

1. Interesting
Technical Debt
Kevin Burke & Josh D’Jelal
AWA Meetup – March 2018
@ Red Hat Open Innovation Labs

2. Technical debt is similar to financial debt.
If you don't control your debt, the
repayments grow and prevent you from
taking opportunities. Sometimes debt is
unavoidable but if it's managed correctly you
can use it to your advantage.

3. What Causes
Technical Debt?

4. https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/sei_blog/2015/07/a-field-study-of-technical-debt.html
Causes of Technical Debt

5. Feedback loops

6. Going from Strategic to Tactical

7. Share, Learn and Plan
Operational Excellence
Security
Reliability
Performance Efficiency
Capacity
Jeff Patton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zq6pZGWeyE
AWS white paper: https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/architecture/AWS_Well-Architected_Framework.pdf

8. Not all Debt is bad

9. MARTIN FOWLER’S TECHNICAL DEBT QUADRANT
Prudent
Inadvertent
Deliberate
Prudent
Reckless
Deliberate
Inadvertent
Reckless
No time for
design
Lack of Engineering
Skills
Ship now, clean up
after
Hindsight is a wonderful
thing

10. How do we motivate a team to
address their technical debt?

11. Conclusion