I first prioritize the most critical issues that impact performance and functionality. I will schedule dedicated time to refactor the code and improve its quality without rushing. Gradually, I work through the technical debt while balancing new development, making sure it doesn’t pile up again.

Begin by assessing the impact of the technical debt, prioritizing fixes that significantly affect system performance or stability. Create a structured plan to allocate resources and schedule time for refactoring within your development cycle. Regularly monitor progress to ensure that improvements are being made and to keep the team motivated as they address the debt. This methodical approach helps manage technical debt while maintaining the health of the project.

To manage and address accumulated technical debt from rushed bug fixes: 1. Prioritize Critical Debt: Identify the areas of code that most impact performance, security, or scalability and focus on resolving those first. 2. Integrate Debt Payoff Into Sprints: Allocate time in each sprint to gradually address technical debt while continuing feature development. 3. Automate Testing: Use automated tests to ensure refactoring doesn’t introduce new issues and maintains system stability. 4. Communicate with Stakeholders: Keep clients and team members informed about the technical debt and its long-term impact to gain support for resolving it. By balancing refactoring with ongoing development, you can effectively reduce technical debt over time!

Any bug can happen because of improperly addressing the requirements or inadequate design of the product. Generally when many bugs are arriving, developers prefer to fix the bugs at faster speeds for satisfying customers, without any document update. At certain stage there shall be major gap between design documents and actual product line. It is nothing but technical debt to design documents. In conventional SDLC processes , once designing phase is frozen, design document can not be modified. To address such technical debt, there need to be agreement between stake holders, final design document shall be published after fixing all bugs identified in a release.

Technical debt is a kind of debt and it has to be paid in the same way any other debt is paid. On most (or not) occasions, it's a well thought and articulated decision to delay addressing certain aspects of a deliverable to be addressed later. Like any other debt, it takes consistent and focused effort to manage such debts. A prioritization exercise is required to start with what is the most impactful area to allocate effort. Efforts are allocated in a consistent manner to address the debt without changing the plan for business deliverable and on occasions you can take a one installment approach of halting business deliverable and focus completely on removing the debt, none of them are wrong way, just pick what you can manage for.