Declan Whelan is an Agile consultant, cofounder of Leanintuit, and a director at the Agile Alliance. Mr. Whelan works with organizations to improve their products and services through Agile and Lean practices. His personal mission in 2016 is to change the conversation around technical debt. Rather than viewing it as a problem to be fixed, we need to view it as feedback to drive improvements to our product and service delivery.