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Transcript for What Is Product Debt And Why You Need To Prioritize Paying It Down   Poornima Vijayashanker: Did you recently show your designs to an engineer and hear this?   Ronan Dunlop:       It is going to be challenging to implement in time for the next release.   Poornima Vijayashanker: Why?   Ronan Dunlop:       They're pretty complex.   Poornima Vijayashanker: Why are they complex?   Ronan Dunlop:       This slider alone is new functionality that is going to take at least two days’ worth of time to implement on the front end, maybe more.   Poornima Vijayashanker: OK, what else?   Ronan Dunlop:       To do these visualizations we're going to need to pull in a lot of data, and that's going to slow down the performance of the app. Some of these new workflows require changes to our current APIs, which have already accrued a significant amount of tech debt.   Poornima Vijayashanker: OK.   Ronan Dunlop:       It doesn't seem doable for the upcoming release. I'd recommend changing the designs.   Poornima Vij