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Re:The Human Cost of Tech Debt by flukus on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @10:52PM (#12223065)
Make sure there is time dedicated to cleaning up the bad stuff. All the platitudes about code quality are worthless without dedicating time to improve things.
Re:The Human Cost of Tech Debt by eru on Thursday August 04, 2016 @03:16AM (#12223950)
And reward people for improving things. Formally and informally.

Formally: in performance review. Informally: acknowledge their work.