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One thing is missing from this list.

No one ever gets promoted for removing features.

Any code base that has had a few birthdays has stuff that needs to be removed and might not ever get removed.

This can be a cultural thing but it needs to permeate down from the very top of engineering. Celebrate and promote cleanups. Track metrics you want to improve. Create burn down tickets that’ll help others to incrementally improve some system.

I’ve only seen this work in one company I’ve worked for and will carry those lessons with me.

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