Technical Debt Prioritization

Prioritize technical debt items for {{product_area}}.

Debt inventory: {{debt_list}}
Team capacity for debt: {{capacity}}
Strategic context: {{context}}

**Prioritization Framework:**

**For each debt item, assess:**

1. **Impact**
   - Developer productivity cost
   - Customer-facing impact
   - Security/reliability risk
   - Velocity drag

2. **Effort**
   - Size of fix
   - Risk of fix
   - Dependencies

3. **Urgency**
   - Is it getting worse?
   - Blocking other work?
   - Compliance implications?

4. **Strategic Alignment**
   - Related to roadmap items?
   - Enables future initiatives?

**Scoring Matrix:**
| Debt Item | Impact | Effort | Urgency | Strategic | Priority Score |

**Priority Categories:**

1. **Must Fix This Quarter**
   - Critical items
   - Justification

2. **Should Fix When Possible**
   - Important but not urgent
   - Opportunistic timing

3. **Accept for Now**
   - Not worth fixing yet
   - Monitor conditions

**Allocation Strategy:**
- % of sprints for debt
- How to protect capacity
- Measurement approach

**Communication:**
- How to explain debt work to stakeholders
- Progress reporting