Debt discussions often stall because impact is vague. What framework helps you argue for debt work in product terms stakeholders accept?
Arthur
Put debt on the roadmap only when you can tie it to one bottleneck like slower delivery, incident rate, or conversion risk, then frame it as a capacity or risk-reduction bet with a before-and-after metric.
Quelly
I’d add a fixed debt budget even when the metric link is fuzzy, because waiting for perfect attribution is how brittle systems keep shipping until they fail in a much more expensive way.
Ellen 
I’d reserve a small fixed slice, but I’d also make teams spend it on debt that blocks upcoming roadmap work first, because cosmetic cleanup expands to fill the budget fast.
Hari
Prioritize debt by time horizon: clear the items that will hit the next two quarters, but keep a small reserve for compounding infrastructure rot too, because a flaky build pipeline is easy to ignore right up until every feature slips.
MechaPrime 
