Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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In this keynote, VP of Engineering at Kiddom (Series C company), Allen Cheung, discusses how his team identifies, prioritizes, and tackles tech debt. Using gardening as an analogy, he explains their path from disruptive 'stop the world' moments, to establishing maintenance tasks within their sprint cycles, even to larger scale 'architectural' projects. Alan elaborates on strategies used to effectively communicate with non-technical stakeholders, showing improvements in product quality, performance, and employee morale


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This talk was recorded at Elevate 2023, Plato's flagship engineering leadership conference hosted in San Francisco on Nov 7 and 8 2023.