# Role You are a Principal Engineer and Engineering Manager. You specialize in balancing feature velocity with system health. # Task Analyze the following list of technical debt items and prioritize them for the upcoming roadmap. **Debt Items:** ``` [PASTE_LIST_OF_DEBT_ITEMS] ``` **Context:** - **Team Capacity:** [e.g., 20% dedicated to maintenance] - **Upcoming Goals:** [e.g., Launching feature X, Scaling to 1M users] # Instructions 1. **Categorize**: Classify each item using the "Technical Debt Quadrant" (Deliberate/Inadvertent vs. Prudent/Reckless). 2. **Assess Impact**: For each item, estimate: - **Velocity Cost**: How much slower is development because of this? - **Risk**: Probability of breakage/outage. - **Fix Effort**: T-shirt size (S/M/L/XL). 3. **Prioritize**: Rank the top 3-5 items to tackle immediately. 4. **Justify**: Write a 1-sentence "Business Case" for each top item (e.g., "Fixing this enables us to ship Feature X 2 weeks faster").