Using Stepsize in your planning process
Stepsize brings a new level of visibility to tech debt.
The best way to ensure reported issues get fixed is to make good practices a habit during your sprint cycles. Stepsize is the ideal tool for this.
Haven't invited your team to Stepsize yet? Open the Stepsize web app and head to
Settings > Members. Head over to our guide on inviting collaborators for more information.
Teams that have a strategy for managing tech debt ship 50% faster. When teams use Stepsize to do this, they ship 3 times faster.
To manage tech debt effectively, pay it back quickly and regularly.
Here are two methods your team could use:
- 1.Allocate 15-20% of resources to refactoring code and fixing bugs in every sprint cycle
- 2.Allocate entire sprints to deal with tech debt on a regular basis, such as every quarter
Use a portion of your team's sprint planning to agree which issues to prioritise.
For example, you could
- Prioritise issues which impact the current work
- Prioritise issues which are lowering morale
At the top of the Stepsize sidebar, navigate to
Visualisation.The visualisation shows you a visual representation of your codebase, which acts as a heamap for issues in your codebase.
You can filter your visualisation based on tags your team uses.
Using the Visualisation tool in Stepsize
Stepsize has a range of powerful tools which help you surface tech debt during your code review process. Learn more about this in the next guide.