Technical debt isn’t just messy code. It’s slow feedback, brittle systems, and manual processes that grind delivery to a halt. It’s why teams spend more time firefighting than innovating.
But here’s the thing: technical debt is a choice. Every time a team pushes off refactoring, skips automation, or accepts a fragile deployment process, they’re choosing to accumulate debt. And like financial debt, it compounds.
The only way out is to pay it down. Automate. Test early and often. Adopt trunk-based development. Remove friction from your pipelines. The cost of fixing it now is always less than the cost of delaying.
If you've made it this far, it's worth connecting with our principal consultant and coach, Martin Hinshelwood, for a 30-minute 'ask me anything' call.
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Philips
Slaughter and May
Kongsberg Maritime
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Sage
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Workday
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New Signature
Big Data for Humans
New Hampshire Supreme Court
Washington Department of Enterprise Services
Washington Department of Transport
Ghana Police Service
Nottingham County Council
Department of Work and Pensions (UK)
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SuperControl
Genus Breeding Ltd
Lean SA
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