Cloud Transformation Whitepaper Technical Debt: Going Beyond the Regular. Going Agile In current challenging times of the digital world, Technical Debt can prove to be a big barrier to digital transformation, if not managed promptly and adequately. Technical Debt comprises of elements that would make it difficult for an enterprise to operate, enhance, maintain, support and extend a software solution. Technical debt can consist of code deficiencies, lack of technical documentation, inadequate development environments, third-party tools and poor development practices. These may make it difficult for teams to undertake code changes. Fortunately, agile practices can prove to be a saviour in disguise for technical debt reduction, if employed appropriately. This white paper provides the following insights: How Agile best practices can reduce technical debt An interesting perspective on using the principles of Kanban for visualizing and quantifying the technical debt Best practices for automated test first development and DevOps platforms for building and deploying codes to multiple environments