Scheduling Strategies That Actually Work
- Debt Budget (Tax): reserve a fixed % of each sprint (10–20%) for debt.
- Refactor Fridays / 20% Time: scheduled cleanup sprints/cadence.
- Opportunistic Refactor: touch a file → leave it better (Boy Scout Rule).
- Thematic Cleanup: pick one cross-cutting theme (e.g., test flake reduction) per quarter.



