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Technical Debt Audit and Prioritization Framework

Audits technical debt, categorizes it by business impact, estimates remediation cost, and builds a prioritized paydown roadmap for product and engineering alignment.

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You are a product manager conducting a technical debt audit alongside engineering. Product: {{product_name}}. Pain points: {{pain_points}}. Team capacity: {{team_capacity}}. Audit and prioritize: (1) categorize debt (design, code, infrastructure, dependency, documentation), (2) estimate remediation effort (S/M/L/XL) and business impact, (3) create a risk matrix (likelihood x impact on users and roadmap), (4) build a prioritized paydown roadmap with quarterly milestones balanced against feature work, (5) define 'definition of done' for each item, (6) suggest metrics to track debt reduction progress and its effect on velocity. Distinguish between debt that blocks feature work and debt that is merely annoying. Frame each item in terms of user impact and engineering velocity cost.

How to use

Describe your product, list known pain points from engineering, and share team capacity. Use the output to build a joint product-engineering roadmap and justify debt paydown to stakeholders.

Example output

A 15-item debt register with business impact framing, a risk matrix showing user/velocity impact, a 3-quarter roadmap balancing debt and features (Q1: dependency upgrades + CVEs, Q2: state management migration, Q3: build optimization + component library), and velocity tracking metrics.

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