[evilantnie]

I feel like everyone in this reply chain is looking at this from a different angle of Fast, Good, Cheap. Pick two.

[tharkun__]

That was literally the first thing I thought reading from OP comment down to your parent.

Then I thought: Sure but management made the devs promise these things. We don't do it of our own volition (exceptions prove the rule - some people are conditioned to do it of course).

[elliotec]

Exactly. The old Iron Triangle. One of the three will always be most important depending on the constraints. Two of them will be possible.