Tech Debt

What's the difference between defect and tech debt? (Choose more than 1 answer)

• Tech debt has interest and principal

• Defect has interest and principal

• Defect has principal but no interest

• Tech debt has interest but no principal

When you have a MVP product requirement, but during sprint, it couldn't be delivered as expected. Do we count the unfinished backlog as tech debt?

• No, we count it as backlog

• No, but we count it as defect

• Yes, because we have to deliver that

• Yes, because it has no interest

Do we need to revisit tech debt?

• Absolutely not!

• I think no...

• We might need to, might not

• Yes, regularly

What is NOT the ultimate goal of managing technical debt?

• Discuss debt in terms of money rather than in terms of features

• Lowering operating expenses of the company

• Keep the debt service at a reasonable level

• To determine when the amount of interest avoided justifies the cost to pay off the principal

Who did introduce the concept of "technical debt"?

• Kent Beck

• Martin Fowler

• Ward Cunningham

• Robert Martin

If there is 2 tech debts,

A - Principal XS, Interest XXL

B - Principal L, Interest S

Which one should have higher priority?

• Both A and B have same priority

• A has higher priority than B

• B has higher priority than A

• A and B has no sense of priority at all