You know that massive refactoring project sitting in your backlog? The one that would fix technical debt but never gets prioritized because there are "bigger, shinier objects" demanding attention?
"Refactoring large code bases, modernizing systems, removing vulnerabilities - these are large, complex, expensive, and add very little business value. But they're necessary to maintain the environment."
New AI-powered tools are changing what's possible. Work that used to take months can happen in weeks. The question is: what do you do with that newfound capacity?
Watch the full episode to hear Peter and Dave discuss how increased technical capacity changes the game - and why the teams doing the work should have more say in what gets tackled next. https://youtu.be/nqVOeD-A3Jg
Got technical debt that never makes it to the top of the priority list?
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