The two week rush + everything is always broken failure pattern is solvable. Given dubious project management schemes, do the refactoring and cleanup first. Th

The two week rush + everything is always broken failure pattern is solvable. Given dubious project management schemes, do the refactoring and cleanup first. Then the functional change is easier to review as it's against a sane background, and there's minimal planned cleanup after in case that phase gets dropped. Call writing the tests characterisation if that helps.