alt Hacker NewsBecause marginal work is only marginally rewarded. Spending one week and coming back to whoever with a nice piece of paper saying we fixed 60 bugs will earn a lot more rope from non-technical folk than fixing 3 bugs per week - the latter just looks like cleaning up your incompetence.
I suspect I'm preaching to the choir, but that is a communication issue and a sign the "rewards system" is out of whack, not a "reason" not to push for regular maintenance/tech debt/bug cleanup work.
It should be understood that there WILL be bugs, that is NOT a sign of incompetence, and so cleaning them up should be an ongoing task so they do not linger and collect (and potentially get worse by compounding with other bugs).