The Problem

Seeking growth and profits, businesses routinely prioritize allocation of engineering resources to new development. In doing so, they overlook the cost of internal technical quality, which slows down development.

Research indicates that businesses spend 20-40% of engineering resources addressing tech debt [1]. This presents a huge opportunity for efficiency.

The Solution

Because engineers face off with tech debt on a daily basis, they keenly sense its cost on productivity. However, they may not communicate it outside of their engineering organization, or they do so with language that the business does not value. For example, they may talk about "tech debt" or "doing things right" instead of emphasizing profit and growth.

Tech Debt Axe teaches engineers to map from technical metrics to business metrics and to use the the right words and rhetoric to win over business stakeholders.

Everyone wins: More profits, faster execution, happier engineers.