Even worse, it misses the point. Shipping means you realize benefits for a target audience. Enable someone to hit a revenue target, compliance measure, etc. if

Even worse, it misses the point. Shipping means you realize benefits for a target audience. Enable someone to hit a revenue target, compliance measure, etc. if leadership doesn't care about that or can't work to that kind of framework; they deserve to go the fuck out of business. Treating it as "please management" is incredibly self serving. You please management by often making them money; sometimes despite themselves.