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Tech-Debt Signals Dashboard

A spreadsheet that tracks technical debt per service with ten measured signals in place of 1-to-5 scores.

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What's inside

  • A Metric Specifications sheet with ten metrics, including change failure rate, lead time, restore time, deployment frequency, test coverage and dependency age.
  • For each metric: category, definition, unit, direction, green, amber and red thresholds, and a data source.
  • A Service Scorecard sheet with one row per service and an overall red, amber or green status that calculates from the values.
  • A sample scorecard with eight services for a fictional company.

Format: Excel workbook.

How to use it

Collect the ten values per service from your pipeline, incident and scanning tools, and review the scorecard on a regular cycle.

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