[mlinhares]

As an engineer it's much easier to "polish" (or work on useless stuff) than to deliver real products. I see that all the time, specially with "platform" teams that have no external product requirements. They waste a lot of time trying to figure out the most amazing way to deliver something instead of delivering something in a timely fashion.

If you push in any way they start to scream "tech debt" and everyone just accepts it. I've been through a migration mandated by an infrastructure team where where were 0 improvements for the teams that used the platform, all benefits were for the platform team only, and this was green-lighted and forced upon everyone without a second thought. It's unbelievable.

[golergka]

> If you push in any way they start to scream "tech debt" and everyone just accepts it.

Just as real-life debt, building a company without it is unrealistic and unwise. You just have to manage it.

[mlinhares]

Its also impossible, even the "amazing" solution will be found to have holes once it hits the real world, the sooner you can get some real feedback for what you're building the easier it is to course correct and move towards the real user needs.