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How to address collective avoidance in engineering teams

Our engineering team has this thing where we all complain about technical debt in private but when we're in sprint planning everyone just nods and takes on more feature work. I've started to realize that including myself, we're all performing agreement while knowing we're making the codebase worse.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Everyone on your team quietly agrees the code is getting worse, but no one says so out loud.

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