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The part about delivering a large visible project on time and owning the CEO or sales team's promises I actually get. Sometimes there's just better market/brand value in delivering on time (even if it's crap underneath).

What is truly criminal is not giving the developers at least a couple refactor iterations to fix all the monkey patch bandaiding put into making that happen. It's a mix of both management's naivete about how bad the underlying code is and their greed of wanting to cash in on the present victory at the expense of future technical debt (that hopefully someone else will have to pay).

I think at least some of this responsibility is on development. They should negotiate and secure the repair iterations for post launch in exchange for making 11th hour design compromises.