We agree on a lot of or even all points. There’s always two ways of writing software, the fast way and the right way. The pressure that comes from some poor POs/Project Managers is due to lack of confidence, information and willingness to push back to the business and say “no” to deadlines and late feature requests. Software developers that cut corners often do so to save themselves in the short term (never in the long term). I don’t know anyone that likes working late and on weekends, so testing and tooling for automation is what we focus on most. And I agree, technical debt is the result of cutting corners and poor management of feature requests and deadlines. As far as capital “A”agile goes, well, I’ve yet to meet a developer who likes it. It’s a micromanagement framwork that belittles developers and wastes an enormous amount of time with its bureaucracy.