Tech Debt Management Systematically identify, categorize, and prioritize technical debt. Categories | Type | Examples | Risk | |------|----------|------| | Code debt | Duplicated logic, poor abstractions, magic numbers | Bugs, slow development | | Architecture debt | Monolith that should be split, wrong data store | Scaling limits | | Test debt | Low coverage, flaky tests, missing integration tests | Regressions ship | | Dependency debt | Outdated libraries, unmaintained dependencies | Security vulns | | Documentation debt | Missing runbooks, outdated READMEs, tribal knowledge | Onboarding pa…