Technical Debt: How to Communicate to Teams, Beyond the Tech

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Examines six common misconceptions about technical debt—its impact, severity levels, causes, scope, management strategies (not only full rewrites), and shared responsibility—and provides tech leaders and developers concrete arguments to communicate the need to reduce debt to non‑technical teams. Uses examples from software engineering and leadership experience in SaaS for pharma labs, and can be delivered in French or English.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:06CTPO role in communication
3. 3:32Origins of unintentional debt
4. 5:40Misconceptions on refactoring
5. 7:50Debt management via backlog
6. 8:32Tech evangelism basics
7. 11:16Assessing debt severity
8. 12:41Tools for debt control
9. 13:44Debt impact on business
10. 14:45Debt and business value
11. 15:27Collective debt responsibility
12. 15:48Code as perishable debt
13. 16:30Debt treatment strategies

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