You discover your team has been silently struggling with tech debt they didn’t report. How do you handle it?

I address this openly but without blame. In the next retrospective, I create a safe space for

the team to share challenges.

We then review the debt together, categorize it by impact, and plan how to tackle it

incrementally—either in future sprints or dedicated “debt paydown” cycles. I also work to

improve transparency so the team feels comfortable raising issues earlier.