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Plan Salesforce technical debt quantification framework for executive reporting
Real World Scenario
CFO asks dollar value of Salesforce technical debt; architects have anecdotal workflow count not financial model.
Expected Answer
• Debt categories: automation code integration security scalability
• Score severity 1-5 times remediation effort hours times blended rate
• Aggregate debt backlog dollar estimate range not false precision
• Trend quarter over quarter burn-down 20 percent capacity
• Risk-adjusted: security debt weighted higher
• Link debt items to incident history cost of past outages
• Executive dashboard debt vs feature investment ratio
Follow-Up Questions & Answers
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Direct answer: Debt categories: automation code integration security scalability Also consider: Score severity 1-5 times remediation effort hours times blended rate In practice: Aggregate debt backlog dollar estimate range not false precision Optimize for scale and operational observability.
Architect Perspective
Quantified debt speaks CFO language—hours times rate beats we have 200 workflow rules.