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When technical teams disagree on prioritizing maintenance versus features

Our development team has been talking about technical debt for months and the senior engineers want to spend two sprints refactoring while the product manager keeps saying we don't have time, and it's creating resentment on both sides.

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Different roles within a team lead to different assessments of risk and priorities, creating ongoing tension about resource allocation.

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