Recovering perfectionist here. Refocus your perfectionism on doing the most valuable job for the business, from a business sense. For me, that means doing half

Recovering perfectionist here. Refocus your perfectionism on doing the most valuable job for the business, from a business sense. For me, that means doing half a dozen different job roles (Project management of multiple projects, SW architecture across multiple projects, Development, Test, Quality control, Process improvement, Team training) - none of them are done as well as I'd like if I focused completely on them, but what the business needs is someone who does them all to a decent standard. It's the perfect balance that's required, not one area perfect. I also focus as an architect on splitting up the projects into small modules that can be developed, unit tested, statically analysed and integration tested. Those who work on these are being trained up in each stage of the process and are getting better and better at it - they can't move onto the next module if the existing one isn't complete, so it spreads out the work they don't like (or have never devoted the time to learn the skills for) so it's not left to the end (and then not done). We're building lots of software components to a very high standard with very little technical debt being stored or rework being required. My employer's been realising the amount that quality issues are causing a lot of trouble (delays, costs, etc), so they're highly supportive of this kind of work and my high standards are appreciated. I work in embedded software, so software updates in the field are painful, sometimes embarrassing, and potentially expensive.