Technical Debt Registers: Managing Debt Like the Liability It Is | Clickmasters

Debt that slows every feature in a hot module is expensive; ugly-but-stable code in a dead corner is nearly free. The register ranks by interest, not by engineer annoyance.

Quarterly: new borrowings, retired items, interest re-estimates — the register keeps debt a managed number instead of ambient dread.

Skipping the discipline this article describes until an incident, audit, or stalled project forces it — every practice above is cheaper adopted early than retrofitted under pressure.