Avoid Technical Debt teaches a practical framework for recognizing, assessing, and making sound technical debt decisions, so software remains easier to understand, modify, and maintain as it evolves.
Why This Course Exists
Technical debt rarely appears all at once. It accumulates through small shortcuts, temporary solutions, and everyday development decisions that quietly make software harder to understand, modify, and maintain.
As technical debt grows, development slows. Changes take longer than they should. Confidence erodes as developers spend more time working around existing problems than delivering new value.
Avoid Technical Debt was created to help developers recognize technical debt early, evaluate it objectively, and make sound decisions before today's compromises become tomorrow's productivity problems.
What You'll Learn
You'll learn how to recognize technical debt through its common forms, signals, and symptoms, assess its impact on development work, prepare practical options for addressing it, and identify the most appropriate approach for your current situation.
Instead of reacting to technical debt after it becomes a problem, you'll learn how to recognize it early and make deliberate decisions that balance today's priorities with tomorrow's productivity.
What's Included
Practical Success Work exercises that help you apply each lesson to your own development work instead of simply watching the videos.
Real-world examples that show how technical debt decisions play out in everyday software projects, including the tradeoffs behind them.
Approximately 70 minutes of focused instruction that you can complete in a single sitting or work through one lesson at a time.
Credit toward the Coding Best Practices Badge in the Mastering Software Developer Productivity series.
Pricing
Introductory Price: $97
List Price: $197
Make sound decisions about technical debt before today's compromises become tomorrow's productivity problems.
