Leadership Toxic Positivity Prevents Honest Technical Debt Assessment
Engineering organizations with legacy codebases suffer from leadership that enforces toxic positivity, refusing to acknowledge deep technical debt and systemic dysfunction. This prevents honest assessment and meaningful improvement of deteriorating software systems.
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