> One contributing factor I don't see people mentioning is that management tends to be absolutely fixated on things that can be easily measured. You can measure

> One contributing factor I don't see people mentioning is that management tends to be absolutely fixated on things that can be easily measured. You can measure timeliness of releases or number of clients or cash flow, but you can't easily measure security, customer or developer satisfaction. With the end result that the things that are important but not easily measurable are getting little to no meritorical discussion. I am 100% on your team here, but I do want to point out that what is important to developers is rarely considered important by the business, more that it's a cost of working with developers. There is no objectively correct "Most important" since there are entirely different priorities and perspectives at play. At some point, liability notwithstanding, you get left with no choice. If someone wants to sink their company with bad software, regardless of how loudly I tell them that's what they're doing, I really have no choice but to hand them the drill and leave them to it.