In Season 2, Episode 10 of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Jack Danger, VP of Engineering at Pathstream, about technical debt — when to take it on, when and how to pay it down, and how to think about it.
Jack and Jean discuss:
- How to think about technical debt as you might think about financial debt - when do you take it on, and when do you pay it down?
- Why you don't actually want your startup's codebase to have no technical debt
- How to strategically take on technical debt so that you can make higher-ROI investments
- What 0% interest technical debt looks like versus high interest rate technical debt
- How to align product, engineering, and design behind common goals and metrics
