Eight of Swords — The Technical Debt Register

▲ Upright +1

You know exactly what is wrong and you have written it all down. The Eight of Swords is the technical debt register that is comprehensive, prioritized, and deeply uncomfortable to read. Every line item is a decision someone made under pressure. Acknowledging the constraints is the first step to negotiating your way out of them.

▽ Reversed -1

Trapped by problems you refuse to inventory. The team that says 'we know where the bodies are buried' but has never actually mapped the graveyard. The Eight of Swords reversed is the comfortable fiction that the debt is manageable, maintained by never adding it up.