Importance of supporting designer & developer creativity
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Team measures time use with log studies and self estimates and finds designers and developers consistently lack hours for creative work. Organization builds an internal recognition system—awards for tech debt plus newsletters highlighting maintenance—to reward maintenance and infrastructure work, reframing it as innovation. Data shows maintenance reduces recurring outages and stabilizes delivery, and the program increases upkeep efforts and fewer persistent-beta systems.
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