How to unify speed and quality in software engineering

Tasks that engineers feel are important, like upgrading dependencies or dealing with tech debt, are things that creep in once a project has more than a couple of months of history. If those tasks are not dealt with, your engineering team’s productivity will drop quickly, no matter how fast they’ve been in the past. 

So what should you do? This is an ugly crossroads to find yourself in.

If you focus only on shipping features and patching the most significant, scariest bugs, your engineers might feel like their priorities don’t matter as much. They might feel that technical quality is not an essential requirement for product managers and other people on the business side of the company.

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