From years of experience, I detect in the tone of this piece a certain notion that product managers / non-technical people tend to form when working with develo

From years of experience, I detect in the tone of this piece a certain notion that product managers / non-technical people tend to form when working with developers - namely, that developers don't care about speed-to-market and would rather agonize and winge over perfect architecture and coding standards... What I think you'll find, more often than not, on the business end of this attitude is a developer(s) patiently trying to explain that speed-to-market is, in fact, directly related to the technical debt accrued on the project for all but the most static and inconsequential things. We must think and communicate about technical debt the way we do to keep errant PMs from drifting off into the Ice Cream Sea of Candyland where all of there half-thought-through ideas they demand be implemented immediately by cutting all corners have no impact on the next set of half-thought-through ideas they want implemented.