Technical debt in agile projects

I'll be presenting my opinions on technical debt in agile projects at Communities in Action 2010 tonight.

The presentation can be found at slideshare but I'll let you in on my three "lemmas" as a tech lead:

• make it simple and easy to report a technical shortcoming
  
• don't let it backfire on the whistleblower
  
• decide the matter in a setting with both technical expertise and executive power