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Tech Debt Business Case

Translate a technical debt problem into a business case a non-technical decision-maker can weigh: cost of inaction, options, and the ask.

Build the business case for fixing: {{debt}} (what's wrong technically, incidents/slowdowns it has caused, what fixing costs).

Translate for a non-technical decision-maker: the problem as a business risk (outages, slow delivery, security exposure — with the evidence from my notes), cost of inaction quantified where possible (hours lost/sprint, incident frequency trend), options — do nothing / patch / fix properly — each with cost and residual risk, the recommendation with a scoped ask (time, people, sequencing against feature work), and the measurable 'done' condition so this doesn't become an open-ended rewrite. No jargon; 'the database is tired' beats 'we have index fragmentation'.

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