Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of\u00a0the Agile Manifesto<\/a>, once said that some problems with code are like financial debt. It\u2019s OK to borrow against the future, as long as you pay it off.<\/p>\n Since Cunningham first used this metaphor, which he called technical debt, it has gained momentum. However, there is a lack of guidance and good practices available to leverage the metaphor in concrete ways to help developers, teams, and organizations.<\/p>\n It is our mission to help those in the agile community build technically healthy products. We do this by:<\/p>\n If you are a manager or team leader, you can start getting help with your technical debt challenges by following this link to our\u00a0Quick Start Guide For Managers<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you are an executive, you can get help in addressing executive-level concerns about technical debt by following this link to our\u00a0Quick Start Guide For Executives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Technical Debt Initiative is now closed Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of\u00a0the Agile Manifesto, once said that some problems with code are like financial debt. It\u2019s OK to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6000331,"featured_media":2308,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","categories":[906],"tags":[713,626],"class_list":["post-389","aa_initiative","type-aa_initiative","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-past","tag-technical-debt"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\t\n\n