Tech Debt Impact Calculator
Calculate how much technical debt costs your organization in lost developer productivity, slower feature delivery, and increased incident rates.
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Tech Debt Impact Calculator
Frequently asked questions
How do you measure technical debt?
Measure through: percentage of developer time spent on unplanned rework, feature velocity trends, incident frequency, deployment failure rate, and onboarding time for new developers. Code quality metrics (complexity, coverage) are secondary indicators.
How much tech debt is acceptable?
Allocating 15-20% of engineering time to tech debt management is healthy. Above 30%, teams typically see accelerating velocity loss. Zero tech debt is unrealistic and often means under-investing in delivery speed.
How do I build a business case for tech debt remediation?
Quantify in dollars: developer time wasted, features delayed (revenue impact), incident costs (MTTR x team involvement), and hiring difficulty (candidates reject tech-debt-heavy codebases). This calculator helps.
Should I do a big rewrite or incremental remediation?
Almost always incremental. Big rewrites take 2-3x longer than estimated, introduce new bugs, and block feature delivery. The strangler fig pattern — replacing components incrementally — is safer and delivers value sooner.
Technical Debt Slowing You Down?
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