Technical agility means having the ability to make changes to your software safely, efficiently and predictably. Technical debt can be thought of as the extra effort required to modify your code because its quality is poor. Technical debt is not just a technical problem, however. People designing and writing code are part of the system that creates value. It is important to take a systemic view of technical debt.

Here are steps to pay down your technical debt and automate your testing

• Learn design patterns thinking and emergent design
• Use sustainable test-driven development
• Follow Net Objectives Software Development Skills Team Agility Roadmap

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All resources in FLEX and Technical Agility

FLEX and Technical Agility (Article)
How to Start with ATDD using BDD (Article)
Software Development Skills Roadmap (Article)
Technical Debt from a Systems Thinking Point of View (Article)