[grumpycanuck]

My experience is that it is a very rare and enlightened management team that allows developers to go back and clean up the technical debt that was created during the mad dash to get your application out the door.

Most of the time you are stuck with technical debt because there is no room in your timeline to go back and fix stuff that you know is broken.

YMMV, but as the blog post author I'm keenly aware of this situation.

[feralchimp]

Sometimes it's up to engineers to say "I'm fixing this," and for QA people to say "I'm not signing off on this until it's fixed."

Maybe I've just been lucky, but all the places I've worked had developers and QA people that were willing to force quality into a product.