Stridently pitching a fit to management citing some sort of "professional standard" isn't professional, helpful, or even compassionate. - I disagree. As edA-qa mort-ora-y said, the clean code does not necessarily need to be pristine but it should be okay level clean in such a way that it is easy for maintenance. Making the product work with bad code will meet the goal of satisfying the customer, temporarily. But, when it comes to maintenance phase or feature addition you will spend even more time due to your technical debt, which both manager and developer don't wish to spend at a crucial stage when the customer wants the product to get its bugs fixed.
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Thanks for sharing your thoughts Harold Combs.
Stridently pitching a fit to management citing some sort of "professional standard" isn't professional, helpful, or even compassionate. - I disagree. As edA-qa mort-ora-y said, the clean code does not necessarily need to be pristine but it should be okay level clean in such a way that it is easy for maintenance. Making the product work with bad code will meet the goal of satisfying the customer, temporarily. But, when it comes to maintenance phase or feature addition you will spend even more time due to your technical debt, which both manager and developer don't wish to spend at a crucial stage when the customer wants the product to get its bugs fixed.