This topic seems to come back again and again.
Ad hoc vs add it the next Sprint? Who has these HIP Sprints and why don’t more teams do them? We have the boyscout rule and that helps with some tech debt but MVP syndrome keeps most other code half-assed. If we agree tech debt is slowing us down and paying it down is fast, then let’s do HIP sprints. If there’s no HIP sprints, then people will simply ad-hoc tech debt the updates. But maybe that’s better anyway. It is like kaizen. Is it blocking you then it’s obvious but if you are positioned to quickly fix something you notice then pay it forward.
Ad hoc vs add it the next Sprint? Who has these HIP Sprints and why don’t more teams do them? We have the boyscout rule and that helps with some tech debt but MVP syndrome keeps most other code half-assed. If we agree tech debt is slowing us down and paying it down is fast, then let’s do HIP sprints. If there’s no HIP sprints, then people will simply ad-hoc tech debt the updates. But maybe that’s better anyway. It is like kaizen. Is it blocking you then it’s obvious but if you are positioned to quickly fix something you notice then pay it forward.