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I think the problem here is that there are very few places where there is any time between pressing feature demands. This always seemed to me what the agile guys were saying. The approach was all centered around the idea that things would always be changing and pressing. The only way to combat that is to put constant refactoring into the day to day so that your codebase can remain coherent and productive to work on.

The bonus of doing things like this is that if you are constantly changing your code then it becomes battle hardened to accept change. This gives you better ability to keep up with the changing demands of both customers and technology.