How to keep an eye on organizational debt

4 minutes

Every engineer is familiar with the concept of technical debt. But as engineering leaders, how do we address the debt that evolves in our organizational processes?

Technical debt has a less recognized cousin: organizational debt. Much like how we build software with the constraints of the moment, we build our organizations, processes, and structures in the same way. What worked for the team yesterday doesn’t always work for the team today or tomorrow.

How organizational debt accrues 

There’s a pearl of wisdom in the startup world that you need to be comfortable doing things that don’t scale.

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