[jqcoffey]

A long time ago I was in a fairly desperate technical situation, that to my and my lead’s minds required a stop the world, must fix or all’s lost approach.

Product wasn’t having it, and I couldn’t negotiate my way through. In the end we ignored them for the ~4 months needed to get back to systems health. We produced a retro of our findings, before and after states, etc. and consensus, from clients and even from product leadership, was that we did the right thing.

My PM ended up quitting and I permanently broke that relationship.

The best advice I ever received was: you were right. Was it worth it?