In almost all cases, I’m opposed to setting aside time for refactoring. In my view refactoring is not an activity you set aside time to do. Refactoring is something you do all the time in little bursts.

Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code

The biggest issue on software teams is making sure everyone understands what everyone else is doing.

I can only think of so many good ideas in a week. Having other people contribute makes my life easier.

If you're a technical lead, you need to be coding.

If you're afraid to change something it is clearly poorly designed.

One of the big dangers is to pretend that you can follow a predictable process when you can't.