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🔄 ETA Friday: A deeper dive on managing technical debt

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Welcome to ETA (Edited to Add) Friday. Every Friday morning we’ll rehash a previous newsletter. Why? There’s always more to learn, and leadership practices are ever-evolving.

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My take:

After Tuesday's newsletter on managing technical debt in agile environments, I received quite a few messages from engineering leaders sharing their own tech debt horror stories. It also got me thinking about some of my history of working at Spot AI over the past two and a half years.

Working on a fast-moving, ever-evolving startup is a load of fun, but it does have downsides—one of those being just how much tech debt you can easily accumulate when you aren’t carefully choosing your next move. It becomes much more difficult to address technical debt the more it accumulates and the more it gets deprioritized.

Managing technical debt can feel overwhelming, but it doesn't have to be. Here's a guide to help you get started:

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