The Boy Scouts have a rule: “Leave the campground cleaner than you found it.” You should apply the same principle to your code. Regular refactoring prevents code rot by keeping the code base clean and easy to maintain. Refactoring activities can be added to the product backlog as user stories to make it a discipline.
Dheerendra is a project management consultant for Simplilearn. He is involved in the structuring of the project management course. He values curious minds and scrambles to learn new things.