Datta Vellal

5 March 2025, Philips. Talk

Taught teams to prioritize technical debt with data

I taught a two-hour hands-on Philips University workshop on finding and prioritizing technical debt with code-health analysis; its announcement reached 4,131 people and the program scored an NPS of 83.

  • Teaching
  • Quality

4,131

people reached

83

program NPS

What would have happened

Teams would treat technical debt as one long backlog, with no clear way to pick the high-impact, low-effort fixes.

The call

Show teams the hotspots in a codebase and start with high-impact, low-effort fixes.

What I did

Ran the hands-on workshop and announced a second session when demand continued.

What changed

The announcement reached 4,131 people and the program scored an NPS of 83.

Proof

Document: Taught teams to prioritize technical debt with data

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