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“What Team Structure Is Right for DevOps to Flourish?”
― Mirco Hering, DevOps for the Modern Enterprise: Winning Practices to Transform Legacy IT Organizations

“I speak about technical debt quite a bit in this chapter, so I wanted to leave you with a few thoughts on how to measure it. There are, of course, the static code-analysis tools that provide a view of technical debt based on coding issues. I think that is a good starting point. I would add to this the cost to deploy the application (e.g., how many hours of people does it require to deploy into a test or production environment), the cost of regression testing the product (how many hours or people time does it take to validate nothing has broken), and the cost of creating a new environment with the application. If you are more ambitious, you can also look for measures of complexity and dependencies with other applications, but I have not yet seen a good repeatable way for measuring those. The first four I mention are relatively easy to determine and should therefore be the basis for your measure of technical debt.”
― Mirco Hering, DevOps for the Modern Enterprise: Winning Practices to Transform Legacy IT Organizations