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Technical Debt Classification Template

Give your engineering team a shared language to classify debt by business impact, estimate effort, and make data-driven decisions about what to fix next.

What's Inside

A 4-category classification system (Blocks delivery / Security risk / Slows onboarding / Cosmetic)
A scoring template: business impact × effort = priority score
A team alignment worksheet for debt triage sessions
Example classifications from real codebases
A quarterly debt review agenda template

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