The trick here is that the only software metrics that I count as contributing towards 'quality' are: 1) did the goals get accomplished? 2) did it get done fas

The trick here is that the only software metrics that I count as contributing towards 'quality' are: 1) did the goals get accomplished? 2) did it get done fast? 3) did we avoid accumulating critical-path tech debt? (I'd like to emphasize that only actually critical-path tech debt matters. Tech debt off the critical path doesn't matter.) Frankly, if you have time to build a perfect solution you've allocated too much time to the task.