The Quiet Erosion of Enterprise Agility Technical debt rarely arrives as a line item that alarms a board. It appears as a delayed upgrade, a workaround added to meet a launch date, a fragile integration that only one engineer understands, or a backlog item repeatedly moved behind a customer-facing feature. Because each decision can look rational in isolation, executive teams often mistake architectural debt for ordinary engineering housekeeping. The result is a liability that remains largely invisible while it begins to shape the company”s commercial performance. The cost compounds. A shortcut that saves two weeks today may add days to every related change for the next several years. A system…