good quality software (say, based on well designed, documented, tested etc. building blocks) can lower costs and improve speed to delivery in the longer run (le

good quality software (say, based on well designed, documented, tested etc. building blocks) can lower costs and improve speed to delivery in the longer run (less need to refactor, fewer bugs, easy to reuse, extend etc. etc.) the trouble, empirically speaking, is that this "longer run" is not close enough to weigh on decisions :-)