“Technical debt is often unavoidable and can even sometimes make good business sense. It’s not about avoiding technical debt completely, it’s about keeping it within reasonable bounds,” says Ambler from PMI. “Much like a financial balance sheet, you need to think of keeping a healthy technical balance sheet – one with a strong debt-to-equity ratio.”
As a technical salesperson, what strategies do you have to help your customers over come technical debt, or avoiding it in the first place?
This article has 4 strategies to avoid technical debt, but we would like to add a fifth: financing for technology purchases. Consider the use of financing programs that allow the enterprise to intelligently budget for adding technology that will improve efficiencies.
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