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Tech Debt Triage
Rank tech debt by impact and effort. Quick wins, long-haul fixes, ignore-for-now buckets.
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Quarterly ritual. Tech debt that does not get scored gets ignored. Pair with sprint planning.
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Triage this tech debt list.
Tech debt items (paste raw): {{LIST}}
Team size: {{NUMBER}}
Sprint capacity for debt %: {{X}}
Top 3 product goals next quarter: {{GOALS}}
Score each item:
- Impact (1 to 5): incident risk, dev velocity, customer pain
- Effort (1 to 5): hours, complexity, blast radius
- Strategic fit (Y / N): blocks a product goal?
Output 4 buckets:
1. Quick wins (high impact, low effort) — do this sprint
2. Big rocks (high impact, high effort) — schedule into roadmap
3. Slow burn (low impact, low effort) — Friday afternoons
4. Ignore (low impact, high effort) — write off
For each item in buckets 1 to 3: owner, deadline, 1-line plan.Works with: Claude · Claude Code · ChatGPT · Cursor · Any model
By Rishi Jain
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