Technical debt includes slow feedback, fragile systems, and manual processes that hinder progress. Addressing it early with automation and testing reduces long-term costs.
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.
Sage
Schlumberger
Graham & Brown
Illumina
Jack Links
Teleplan
Kongsberg Maritime
Trayport
Emerson Process Management
Big Data for Humans
Flowmaster (a Mentor Graphics Company)
Higher Education Statistics Agency
CR2
Milliman
NIT A/S
MacDonald Humfrey (Automation) Ltd.
DFDS
Epic Games
Washington Department of Transport
Washington Department of Enterprise Services
Royal Air Force
Ghana Police Service
Department of Work and Pensions (UK)
New Hampshire Supreme Court
Brandes Investment Partners L.P.
Akaditi
NIT A/S
Boeing
Jack Links
Lockheed Martin
