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Frank Puffer • Edited

I understand. My point is that all development processes I know are based on tasks. A developer is not supposed to do (or at least isn't paid for doing) anything outside a task. So to make the reduction of technical debt happen, you need to define tasks for it in the standard tracking system as well.

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Aleksey Pastuhov

Yes, you need and you need to plan it as a part of the sprint/milestone/etc.

A developer is not supposed to do (or at least isn't paid for doing) anything outside a task.

In my honest opinion, it is a bad practice from evolution/growth perspective.

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Frank Puffer

In my honest opinion, it is a bad practice from evolution/growth perspective.

Not neccessarily if a developer can create additional tasks without too much bureaucratic overhead.