Quadrant — Tech Debt Prioritisation
Pain caused × cost to fix, to schedule refactors sensibly.
Make it your own.
title: Tech Debt
x-axis: Cheap to Fix --> Costly to Fix
y-axis: Low Pain --> High Pain
quadrant-1: Plan a project
quadrant-2: Fix this sprint
quadrant-3: Leave it
quadrant-4: Refactor opportunistically
point: Flaky CI: [0.4, 0.8]
point: God object: [0.85, 0.7]
point: Dead feature flags: [0.3, 0.25]
point: No types in module: [0.6, 0.4]