This can be a cultural thing but it needs to permeate down from the very top of engineering. Celebrate and promote cleanups. Track metrics you want to improve.

This can be a cultural thing but it needs to permeate down from the very top of engineering. Celebrate and promote cleanups. Track metrics you want to improve. Create burn down tickets that’ll help others to incrementally improve some system. I’ve only seen this work in one company I’ve worked for and will carry those lessons with me.