Design Debt, Tech Debt’s Long Lost Cousin

Ben Staples
5 min readNov 20, 2020

Originally published on www.Ben-Staples.com

Every Product Manager out there knows about the struggle that is tech debt. Some teams call it component ownership, other times it will come up as a code refactor, but one of the most challenging parts of the job as a Product Manager is building trust with your engineering partners, and prioritizing what tech debt needs prioritizing.

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Ben Staples

Ben Staples has over 7 years of product management and PMM eCommerce experience from at Nordstrom, Trunk Club, and Vistaprint . Currently based in Chicago IL