your company doesn’t have a regular culture of cleaning up as you go along, see if it’s possible for you to get momentum around having regular cleanup weeks. I’ve heard these called “fix-it weeks” and “tech debt weeks,” and I’ve also seen a fair amount of cleanup happen during engineering exploration time, like “20% time” or “passion project week.” Another option is to set up a rotation where one person on the team is always dedicated to responding to issues and making things better. Don’t get hung up on the name or whether something really “counts” as technical debt. The point is that it’s a
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