---
title: "Managing Technical Debt"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/managing-technical-debt-amqit3und
source_url: https://8thlight.com/insights/managing-technical-debt
type: article
source: "8th Light"
published: 2024-04-11T14:54:27.994Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:20:02.615Z
tags: ["devops", "productivity", "technical-debt"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 2
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Managing Technical Debt

**[8th Light](https://daily.dev/sources/8thlight)** · 2 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Managing technical debt is crucial for development teams. DevOps practices can help reverse the trend and create efficiencies. The four steps to managing technical debt are diagnose and quantify, prevent, prioritize and repay, and measure, repeat, and evolve. Prevention methods include comprehensive code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD.

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Tags: [#devops](https://daily.dev/tags/devops), [#productivity](https://daily.dev/tags/productivity), [#technical-debt](https://daily.dev/tags/technical-debt)

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