Technical Debt Reduction overview

Quarterly cross-team initiative to identify, prioritize, and systematically address accumulated technical debt across the codebase and infrastructure. Teams nominate debt items, which are reviewed by principal engineers and architects for impact and remediation cost. Selected items are scoped into dedicated reduction sprints or allocated a fixed percentage of each sprint's capacity. Progress is tracked in a shared backlog, and outcomes are reviewed in a quarterly architecture sync. The workflow balances shipping new value with maintaining a sustainable, high-quality codebase over the long term.