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A 5-Step Recipe for Technical Debt Management

  • July 29, 2026
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Lance E Osborne

New Insights from Scot Nielsen, VP Product Management, Application Modernization

Scot argues that technical debt should be managed as a modernization roadmap, not just a maintenance problem. He outlines a five-step approach: discover debt, map it to business impact, modernize incrementally, prevent new debt through governance and security, and make debt management an ongoing discipline.

Technical readers should read this for its practical guidance on prioritizing remediation, combining AI with deterministic analysis, reducing modernization risk, and turning technical debt into a measurable driver of performance, cost optimization, and long-term agility.

A 5-Step Recipe for Technical Debt Management | LinkedIn