Beyond the wall of issues - Focus to drive velocity Mathew Aniyan Program Manager, Microsoft

Introduction

Technical Debt = Anything that slows you down from delivering customer value

Technical Debt

Background

Technical Debt Quadrant – Martin Fowler

ALM Lifecycle 

 Accelerate with Agile

ALM Lifecycle  Sluggish with Technical Debt

Tools to manage Technical Debt

Continuous Measurement Demo

Make Debt Visible Demo

Track Team Activity Demo

Govern through backlog Demo

Govern through Code Review Demo

Wall Of Issues

Too many issues

Not my code

Delays my feature

Strategies to manage Technical Debt

Strategy 1 – Prevent the water leak Demo

Strategy 2 – Manage the Debt down Demo

Strategy 3 – Prioritize Debt and track in backlog

SQALE

Prioritize Debt using SQALE Demo

Conclusion

Summary Use Tools to manage your Technical Debt Continuous Measurement Make Debt Visible Track team activity Govern through backlog Govern through code reviews Use a combination of strategies to manage your technical debt Prevent the water leak Manage the debt down Prioritize debt & track in backlog