In real life you both can't afford having reputation risk and you need to ship anyway. If you have an incident, guess who's going to be liable – the manager or

In real life you both can't afford having reputation risk and you need to ship anyway. If you have an incident, guess who's going to be liable – the manager or the name on the commit? Stop negotiating quality; negotiate scope and set a realistic time. Shipping a lot of crap faster is actually slower. 99% of the companies out there can't focus on doing _one_ thing _well_, that's how you beat the odds.