How Do You Balance Feature Development and Technical Debt?

Giving your team a good environment to foster engineering excellence is one key feature that boosts employee retention. Technical debt is very real, and you have to make sure you give your engineers a clean codebase to work with. However, this also differs from company to company. A start-up might have a messier codebase and might be willing to pay the technical debt to achieve their short-term goals, whereas an established company might be more concerned with their long-term bottom-line since they would be out of their survival phase. How you approach technical debt has to be in line with the company’s overarching goals.