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I know that I'm a small sample size - but in my career so far, "later" means "never" a lot more often than it actually means "later". Especially when it comes t

I know that I'm a small sample size - but in my career so far, "later" means "never" a lot more often than it actually means "later". Especially when it comes to paying down technical debt.

pc86 6y ago
In my similarly limited experience, this is directly correlated with equal parts 1) how strong-willed the architects and technical leadership is; 2) how [dis]functional your non-technical leadership is. Most good developers want to pay down technical debt. Most good architects are able to balance business and technical needs enough to know when and how to pay down what debt without spending four sprints renaming variables. It's when you have either dis-functional leadership who refuses to listen to their employees (most likely IME), or architects weak in either skill or constitution who can't or won't stand up the bosses to try to explain to them why we need to spend some time renaming variables.