I really wish businesses thought more about the butterfly effect.
Putting small tickets that help reduce technical debt, increase developer happiness or help make progress towards a longer term technical goal at the bottom of the backlog because something larger and product focused always gets higher priority is such a great way to ensure you end up with lots of technical debt and unhappy teams of developers.
It is demoralizing to continue to identify problems and outline solutions but they never see the light of day. Also when you encounter the problem again and again and again it's reliving this negative memory of "well this is never going to change". Eventually this happens long enough where it becomes a culture at the company and most folks stop investing their energy into identifying them and things get worse as time goes as you cycle through new developers because people quit and new hires come in. The company loses so much with the loss of domain knowledge and hiring that the product greatly suffers in the end.
Never under estimate how much of a difference a motivated and happy team can make.
Putting small tickets that help reduce technical debt, increase developer happiness or help make progress towards a longer term technical goal at the bottom of the backlog because something larger and product focused always gets higher priority is such a great way to ensure you end up with lots of technical debt and unhappy teams of developers.
It is demoralizing to continue to identify problems and outline solutions but they never see the light of day. Also when you encounter the problem again and again and again it's reliving this negative memory of "well this is never going to change". Eventually this happens long enough where it becomes a culture at the company and most folks stop investing their energy into identifying them and things get worse as time goes as you cycle through new developers because people quit and new hires come in. The company loses so much with the loss of domain knowledge and hiring that the product greatly suffers in the end.
Never under estimate how much of a difference a motivated and happy team can make.