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This book is for software engineers, team leads, engineering managers, and technical executives who want to:
- Learn how to control the amount of Tech Debt that AI introduces to a project
- Identify and prioritize the debt that’s actually slowing you down today
- Use tech debt payments to increase developer productivity immediately
- Integrate small, effective debt payments into your everyday coding
- Run team-wide processes for scoring, prioritizing, and deciding on debt
- Communicate about technical debt in ways stakeholders will value
- Plan debt projects that help deliver roadmap items
- Use technical debt payoffs to speed up code reviews
- Influence CTOs to support larger initiatives
- Create a culture where paying down tech debt is part of how you work
In Swimming in Tech Debt, veteran engineer, manager, and technical executive Lou Franco defines tech debt not as something you “owe,” but as resistance—like swimming upstream. Drawing from more than 30 years of building and leading software teams, Franco offers a practical, research-backed guide to managing and paying down technical debt while working on features.
Lou Franco on How Tech Debt affects AI Assisted Coding
Free Tech Debt Resources and Sample Chapters
If you want to read some chapters and get a tech debt planning spreadsheet, sign-up here:
(if you can’t see the form above, go here to sign up)
Here are some things that you get from the email list:
- Sample chapters from each section (more than what is on Amazon)
- A link to the google spreadsheet I use to score and plan tech debt projects
- A Series Called: “Eight Questions You Should Ask About Your Tech Debt”
- Links to Podcasts I appear on where I discuss the topics in the book
- Notifications of when the book is available in other formats
- A place for list members to post jobs — find a hire or job that cares about tech debt
I am also available to run a workshop with your engineering team to develop a plan to address your technical debt. You can contact me here or connect to me on LinkedIn.