Set up your account

This should all take less than ten minutes.

• Go to app.stepsize.com & create your account
• Set up an organisation & invite your collaborators
• (Optional) Install some integrations
  • An editor integration to report debt while coding
  • A pull request integration to report debt during code reviews
  • The Jira integration to surface how debt might impact features

How to manage debt with Stepsize

Track debt while you work

Debt reports help your team understand where debt is, and how severe it is.

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Tech debt reports

Organise reported debt logically

Debt items describe the root cause of problems ⇒ Link all related debt reports to a debt item to measure its severity.

Debt groups represent domains in your codebase ⇒ Understand where debt is costing you most, at a high level.

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Tech debt items

Tech debt groups

Prioritise debt based on business priorities

Deliver your product roadmap at pace ⇒ Is your team losing time in parts of the codebase where you want to add features? Prioritise that debt.

Improve product quality & reliability ⇒ Work your way through the list of debt items causing the most quality issues of the highest severity.

Need to convince leadership? ⇒ Make a compelling case for a technical initiative with a proposal backed up by empirical evidence & endorsements from your peers.

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Deliver your roadmap at pace

Improve product quality

Making the case for technical initiatives

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