How do you all handle it when the Product vs. Engineering friction becomes a nightmare? My engineering lead and I are at a total standstill regarding our next sprint. He wants to spend the entire month on technical debt, but our stakeholders are screaming for a specific API integration. If I force the integration, I lose the trust of the devs. If I prioritize the tech debt, I’m the one who has to answer to the CEO when revenue stalls.

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70% or 80% new feature dev, 20% to 30% tech debt. Or one of every 4 sprints can be 100% tech debt, but that means they must completely ignore it in the 3 other sprints (which most devs will hate even more).

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I second this, be firm, be confident.

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Do both 70-30% or 40-60%

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Ask them to prioritize the tech debt and also find out which things would affect the new integration. Get a realistic level of effect and time to make the integration, and have them spend the rest of the time on the tech debt, starting with highest priority and anything that directly involves the integration

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