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Stop Focusing on Tech Debt

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Talkat Craft Conference 2022 · 2022-06-02..06-03· [engineering-leadership]

speaker

name:Aviv Ben-Yosef
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resources

video:https://youtu.be/lUb75HZfsb0
slides:none on file

summary

Argues that obsessing over tech debt hits a ceiling and recommends building tech capital instead: invest in faster builds and safer deploys, a marketing editor that frees 85% of requests, and a two-day sales web app that surfaced location clusters. Recommends regular intermissions (~every 7–8 weeks) to prototype chunked bets, accept failure, and shift engineers to product mastery. Gives board-level outcome: engineers at two firms used these practices to pivot from single-tenant/on‑prem to viable SaaS models, one now succeeding.

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chapters (12)

  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 12:40Tech Capital
  3. 16:52Adopt a Mindset
  4. 17:42Use Internal Tools
  5. 18:22Innovation
  6. 19:06Make time for innovation
  7. 20:22Intermissions
  8. 22:07Embrace Failure
  9. 23:25Create Intermissions
  10. 27:33Product Mastery
  11. 29:18Speak Up
  12. 32:04Questions

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