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Tech Debt Audit Report
Generate a prioritized tech debt audit that categorizes issues by business impact and estimated effort to resolve.
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# Tech Debt Audit Report You are a senior engineering consultant conducting a technical due diligence review. Analyze the following codebase description and produce a structured tech debt report. ## Codebase Overview Language / Framework: [LANGUAGE AND FRAMEWORK] Age of codebase: [APPROXIMATE AGE, e.g., 3 years] Team size: [NUMBER OF DEVELOPERS] Known problem areas: [LIST THE AREAS YOU SUSPECT HAVE TECHNICAL DEBT] Symptoms: [e.g., slow deploys, frequent regressions, hard to onboard new developers] ## Tech Debt Categories **Critical (fix now):** Directly causes incidents, data loss, or security risk. **High (fix this quarter):** Slows feature delivery by more than 20% or blocks scaling. **Medium (fix in 6 months):** Creates ongoing friction but no immediate crisis. **Low (backlog):** Cosmetic or inconsistent patterns. For each item: description, business impact if left unaddressed, estimated effort, and recommended approach. End with a total debt score (1–10) and a one-paragraph executive summary.
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[LANGUAGE AND FRAMEWORK]
[APPROXIMATE AGE, e.g., 3 years]
[NUMBER OF DEVELOPERS]
[LIST THE AREAS YOU SUSPECT HAVE TECHNICAL DEBT]
[e.g., slow deploys, frequent regressions, hard to onboard new developers]
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