Continuing that line of thinking, one of my epiphany moments when I first arrived at a dominant player was the acceptance that we would ship with bugs. The way

Continuing that line of thinking, one of my epiphany moments when I first arrived at a dominant player was the acceptance that we would ship with bugs. The way to stay at the front of the race is to prioritize your bugs and fix the right ones in the time that you have because if you think you'll get them all, you'll never ship. Get the ones that have the highest probability of causing your customers pain and know that you aren't ignoring the ones that are scheduled for your next maintenance release. Debate intelligently if you think something needs to be reclassified as a higher priority and learn to accept that there might be a couple that you don't win so you can get on with covering as much of what remains as possible.