Building up technical debt?

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Retrospectives are the ideal time to remind the team about specific practices.

In our last retrospective, I tried to find out if we were building up technical debt.

By holding a poll, the results would show us if we took enough time to refactor.

Every team member graded the code health on a scale from 0 to 5. Zero being dramatic, five being perfect code.

This was the result:

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The team responded that five is impossible to achieve, but we that it should always be our ambition.

We concluded that 4 was a great score and that we took enough time to refactor.

Keep up the good work, guys! We’ll do the poll again in a couple of weeks.

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About Nick Oostvogels

Hi, I'm an independent management consultant. My biggest strengths are located in the fields of teamwork, motivation, leadership and continuous improvement. In the IT industry you find a lot of these values in the agile movement, in which I often act as a project leader, product owner or coach. My interests go a lot further, into other industries where we find these values in lean production. Besides that, I try to broaden my horizon as much as possible, always looking for better ways of doing business.

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