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How can I convince my boss that I should dedicate time to clean an important part of our code base?

22nd November 2013

My answer to How can I convince my boss that I should dedicate time to clean an important part of our code base? on Quora

It sounds like your boss needs to learn about the concept of Technical Debt: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog...

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