I'm with Vacri; I'm very reluctant to do that. Small problems can be harbingers of big ones. Even when they aren't, small problems often confound the ability to solve big ones.
Most concerning for me, though, is what safety experts call "normalization of deviance". It's the process by which people become accustomed to small failures, which creates opportunities for big failures to happen. A big example is the Challenger disaster. [1]
I see shops with low bug rates, where people think a lot about quality. And I see shops that, thanks to high bug rates, are too busy fighting fires to ever spend much time on quality. I never see any place in between. And I think normalization of deviance is why.
Most concerning for me, though, is what safety experts call "normalization of deviance". It's the process by which people become accustomed to small failures, which creates opportunities for big failures to happen. A big example is the Challenger disaster. [1]
I see shops with low bug rates, where people think a lot about quality. And I see shops that, thanks to high bug rates, are too busy fighting fires to ever spend much time on quality. I never see any place in between. And I think normalization of deviance is why.
[1] http://mikemullane.com/stopping-normalization-of-deviance/