Product Debt Inventory

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Jordan Reyes

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Inventory and prioritize various types of product debt

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Create a product debt inventory for {{product_area}}.

Context: {{context}}
Team: {{team}}

Categorize and document product debt:

**UX Debt**
- Inconsistent patterns
- Workarounds users must take
- Confusing flows
- Accessibility gaps

**Technical Debt**
- Architecture limitations
- Performance bottlenecks
- Security concerns
- Scalability issues

**Feature Debt**
- Incomplete features
- Missing edge cases
- Half-built capabilities
- Promised but not delivered

**Documentation Debt**
- Missing or outdated docs
- Tribal knowledge
- Onboarding gaps

**For each debt item:**
| Item | Category | Impact | Effort | Age | Risk if Ignored |

**Prioritization Framework**
- Urgency (time-sensitive?)
- Impact (how many affected?)
- Effort (how hard to fix?)
- Dependencies (blocking other work?)

**Recommendations**
- Critical debt to address immediately
- Debt to allocate % of sprints to
- Debt to accept for now

**Debt Prevention**
- Process changes to reduce future debt

Details

Category

Analysis

Use Cases

Debt assessmentSprint planningQuality improvement

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