I recently walked away from a client who had this attitude. I want to take pride in my work, when I cannot I suffer for it. The way I look at it is the follow

I recently walked away from a client who had this attitude. I want to take pride in my work, when I cannot I suffer for it. The way I look at it is the following: There are times to take the shortcut (Business reason, for example), and there are times to do the technically sound thing (long term health, usually). A healthy software team is doing both as it makes sense. That's quality software dev. It's when business takes over the software teams decisions and you always take the shortcut that quality falls off a cliff. I've worked in those environments too much. I want to be able to take pride in the work I do.