Managing technical debt in a code is very important and there are some simple ways in which you can do it. It is the responsibility of the entire software development team along with the stakeholders, product owner as well as the non-technical team to understand its existence, effects and necessity for its repayment. It is essential for the survival of the company and also to produce useful and effective codes to the users. Proper management of technical debt and timely repayment will help you to maintain the perfect balance between short term and long terms benefits which will enable you to earn more profit from the business.
Consideration Of Technical Backlog
Usually, there are two different approaches followed by the software companies for addressing technical debts. The amount of interest in each code is calculated is done with the consideration of technical backlog along with the inclusion of cost that is required to clear the debt. But prior to that there are to other significant processes that you must know as it will make considerable sense in the pretext of tech debt clearance in some projects. As a code owner you have to first determine the necessity of paying of the debt in a specific code before you deal with the clearance with buffer task refactoring.
Buffer Task Recording
This is a significant task that must be performed by the software development team. There must be one buffer task or each code release with a minimum time of 10% time available. The time taken for the task that has not been considered for refactoring has to be recorded which will help in dealing with the unknown problems that a may arise in the future. This buffer does not force any team to decide whether or not they should devote the time for the necessary refactoring. It is absolutely at the sole discretion of the business whether the recorded time on the buffer task schedule should be given for refactoring or not.
Release Of Clean Code
This is perhaps the simplest way to manage technical debt. If you release clean codes always based o simple technicality that can be improved from time to time will not allow tech debt to occur. Proper time has to be devoted for the designing and testing of the code before releaseso as to ensure there is no fault in the code and it is ready for release. Such approach is useful and effective only when there list containing the necessary refactoring for a specific code so that no time is wasted unnecessarily on unimportant refactoring.
Proper Understanding Required
Proper understanding of the code base and tech debt is required before any purely technical code release is made so that you can rework on the architecture of the code as and when required. It is the same kind of understanding that is required for debt consolidation loans when you want to repay the small multiple debts with a larger amount of loan often taken at a low rate of interest.
