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.
We partner with businesses across diverse industries, including finance, insurance, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, technology, engineering, transportation, hospitality, entertainment, legal, government, and military sectors.
Bistech
DFDS
Xceptor - Process and Data Automation
Genus Breeding Ltd
Epic Games
Freadom
Boeing
Trayport
Lockheed Martin
Cognizant Microsoft Business Group (MBG)
Milliman
Slaughter and May
SuperControl
Teleplan
Microsoft
NIT A/S
Big Data for Humans
Kongsberg Maritime
Ghana Police Service
New Hampshire Supreme Court
Department of Work and Pensions (UK)
Nottingham County Council
Washington Department of Enterprise Services
Royal Air Force
ProgramUtvikling
SuperControl
Cognizant Microsoft Business Group (MBG)
Philips
MacDonald Humfrey (Automation) Ltd.
Lockheed Martin