Defects are the fault of programmers but programmers are pressured to deliver quickly and judged on their ability to deliver quicker than another (in some cases

Defects are the fault of programmers but programmers are pressured to deliver quickly and judged on their ability to deliver quicker than another (in some cases, not all). Given this, the blame can be pushed onto the person setting a timeline if and only if they don't give the programmer enough time to evaluate a solution and implement based off of that evaluation. If the programmer is given an opportunity to evaluate the scope of the work and allowed to communicate the time they think it will take, then any fault in the resulting work is the fault of the programmer. What I've seen are programmers unwilling to spend the time necessary to fully understand the work they are doing and managers/sales people/whohaveyou who push for aggressive timelines.