Explaining a tech debt project

When an engineer comes to you with an engineering project that she wants to do, think about framing the project by answering these questions:

• How big is that project?
• How important is it?
• Can you articulate the value of that project to anyone who asks?
• What would successful completion of the project mean for the team?

The value of these questions is that you start to treat big technical projects the same way as product initiatives.⊕ (Fournier 2017, chap. 7)

My advice is to do your best to gather data to support yourself, and talk about what will be possible when the work is done.⊕ (Fournier 2017, chap. 7)