How do you explain the need for code cleanup to non-technical partners?
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Our team spent months focusing only on releasing requested features as fast as we could. While it helped us gain traction early on making updates eventually became scary because things kept breaking randomly.
We decided to pause feature releases for almost a month just to rewrite the messy parts and fix our testing. Stopping our roadmap felt risky but fixing the foundation doubled our dev speed afterward.
What argument or data do you use to convince stakeholders that cleaning up internal code is worth pausing new feature work?
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I did explain it in terms of time saved and fewer bugs rather than technical debt Its easier to show stakeholders how cleanup can reduce support issues and make future features faster to ship