Your Engineers Aren't Lazy, Your Codebase Is Punishing Them
Your Engineers Aren't Lazy, Your Codebase Is Punishing Them
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Your Engineers Aren't Lazy, Your Codebase Is Punishing Them
A two-minute interactive audit to score whether technical debt is dragging your engineering team. Five signals that separate people problems from code problems.
A client’s team spent a full week adding a CSV export to their admin panel. Two engineers, clear requirements, maybe a day of actual work. The rest of the time went to understanding existing code well enough to change it safely. That’s what I call codebase drag: when the codebase makes every task take longer than it should. It doesn’t show up in any dashboard or sprint report.