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The business can and should set a general tone about where it wants to sit on the sloppy vs. perfectionist spectrum, but it's not competent to make those decisi
by closeparen 7y ago
The business can and should set a general tone about where it wants to sit on the sloppy vs. perfectionist spectrum, but it's not competent to make those decisions at a granular level. That requires engineering sensibilities.
We have a small but dedicated percentage of sprint bandwidth dedicated to engineering's internal priorities, off limits to PMs. It works decently well. Certainly better than letting PMs make calls on which modules are most in need of refactoring.
- tln 7y agoOut of curiosity, what's the percentage? I do something like this approach too - Friday mornings I try to start with devops / tech debt / hacking instead of product priorities.
- closeparen 7y agoIt’s been between 15% and 30%. Some of that is just the treadmill of internal platform migrations though. 15% for local team’s own needs.