Once you get to the point of something working, the business is going to move on ahead without giving your team any time to go back to refine and improve.
Bug fixes will be given some time but telling management/business, we need 2 months to go and clean up everything we've built over the last 6 since we now have an idea of how to structure this capability is gonna be met with a laugh and a no.
Inevitably something will break or a new feature will not be possible cause of existing limitations and everyone will get mad since no one told them something could break without an improvement even though you told them well beforehand that the ground was shaky.
I think companies not prone to this are ones where their product is a technical one like cloud services where the business really is the engineering and engineering isn't a means to an end.
Bug fixes will be given some time but telling management/business, we need 2 months to go and clean up everything we've built over the last 6 since we now have an idea of how to structure this capability is gonna be met with a laugh and a no.
Inevitably something will break or a new feature will not be possible cause of existing limitations and everyone will get mad since no one told them something could break without an improvement even though you told them well beforehand that the ground was shaky.
I think companies not prone to this are ones where their product is a technical one like cloud services where the business really is the engineering and engineering isn't a means to an end.