We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs

Fixing bugs before new code can shed interesting lights on how a dev team can become more effective.

Alternative title: "We only fix bugs for one week every quarter".

189 bugs in one week. How many employees quit after that?

So normally they don't fix bugs before adding feature bloat?

FYI, this article describes how traditional Google fixit was conducted: https://mike-bland.com/2011/10/04/fixits.html

False sense of accomplishment.

Doing what you want to do instead of what you should doing (hint: you should be busy making money).

Inability to triage and live with imperfections.

Not prioritizing business and democratizing decision making.