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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.