Stop Calling It Technical Debt

Every engineering leader I know has had the same frustrating conversation. You&rsquo;re in a planning session, you raise a concern about the state of the codebase, and you reach for the phrase &ldquo;technical debt.&rdquo; The room shifts. Product managers glance at each other. Someone asks if it can wait until next quarter. The conversation moves on. &#xA; The problem isn&rsquo;t that your…