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

2. Introduction

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

4. Technical Debt

5. Background

6. Technical Debt Quadrant – Martin Fowler http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebtQuadrant.html

7. ALM Lifecycle 

8.  Accelerate with Agile

9. ALM Lifecycle  Sluggish with Technical Debt

10. Tools to manage Technical Debt

11. Continuous Measurement Demo

12. Make Debt Visible Demo

13. Track Team Activity Demo

14. Govern through backlog Demo

15. Govern through Code Review Demo

16. Wall Of Issues

17. Too many issues

18. Not my code

19. Delays my feature

20. Strategies to manage Technical Debt

22. Strategy 1 – Prevent the water leak Demo

23. Strategy 2 – Manage the Debt down Demo

24. Strategy 3 – Prioritize Debt and track in backlog

25. SQALE http://www.sqale.org/

26. Prioritize Debt using SQALE Demo

27. Conclusion

28. 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