I think you can visualize tech debt by recording a chart where the indicator "debt" is $cost = ($num_tech_debt * $instance). $num_tech_debt is the number of dif

I think you can visualize tech debt by recording a chart where the indicator "debt" is $cost = ($num_tech_debt * $instance). $num_tech_debt is the number of different pieces of technical debt, and instance is a number incremented each time technical debt affects you. For every "instance" of technical debt affecting something, the cost goes up. If you aren't addressing tech debt, the chart will just go up and up and up. The only way to make it go down is to eliminate the number of technical debt things, which will reduce the cost equation (unless some other technical debt's instances go up). I suck at math, so maybe somebody else has a better way to represent that?