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InsightsHow Four Teams Stopped Postponing the Refactoring They Knew They Needed

As an engineering leader, you don’t need to be told your codebase needs attention. The issue isn’t awareness – it’s the rational risk calculation that follows.

For four teams, that calculation kept producing the same answer: defer. They found a way out not by avoiding the calculation, but by changing what went into it.

To refactor or not: The cost of a rational decision