Pennington: Professional corner-cutting

I'm not saying that you just ignore an area because you plan to work on it soon, but rather that instead of leaving technical debt scattered around throughout your system, you try to eliminate it in the areas that you don't plan on working on soon, which will concentrate in in the areas that you plan to work on soon anyway.

Yes, sometimes plans change, but even then I think you are better with a known area of problems than with your problems scattered throughout the system.