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flukus on Aug 4, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Human Cost of Tech Debt

Make sure there is time dedicated to cleaning up the bad stuff. All the platitudes about code quality are worthless without dedicating time to improve things.

eru on Aug 4, 2016 [–]

And reward people for improving things. Formally and informally.

Formally: in performance review. Informally: acknowledge their work.

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