If you can find an answer to that that works you'll double the success rate of software projects. Some stakeholders and managers don't understand software, the

If you can find an answer to that that works you'll double the success rate of software projects. Some stakeholders and managers don't understand software, the importance of clean code, and how insidious feature creep can be. They are used to a world where strict deadlines are necessary to keep people accountable. There's no changing people like that. There's only choosing your battles and doing your best to (politely) contain them.