Technical debt is a vague and very ill-defined term that can be used by both engineers and managers to cover for dysfunctional organizational dynamics. So to av

Technical debt is a vague and very ill-defined term that can be used by both engineers and managers to cover for dysfunctional organizational dynamics. So to avoid it requires a functioning organization whose members are committed to technical excellence. Short of that there is no reasonable way to avoid technical debt because it is fundamentally a reflection of the organization and not the code.