Labels are an additional tool to organise the debt you've tracked.

You can use them to segment the debt items within a given group in various ways.

Examples

• Use labels to describe features and understand the debt affecting specific features
• Use labels to describe the primary business metric impacted by the debt (velocity, reliability, developer onboarding, etc.)
• Use labels to input your own sense of priorities (e.g. urgent, discuss, ignore, etc.)
• Use labels to describe the effort required to address the debt (e.g. large, medium, small)

There are many possibilities depending on your priorities, org structure, etc.

Why use labels?

You'll then be able to use the label filters to isolate a specific type of debt items you want to look at.

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