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Then place the blame on the gatekeeper. As a sysadmin, I'd be more than happy with you pointing the finger at me as the reason why you can't deliver a feature. Assuming, of course, that you've run the proper tests and gotten QA's approval.

Honestly. Developers should stop thinking that their jobs is to release features all the time at all costs. That's simply not true and that's counter productive for the business.

If only the business might learn that it's not their jobs to request new features all the time at all costs...

If only customers weren't fickle and might learn not to demand new features all the time whatever the costs...

It's turtles all the way down.

And in the end, that's the developer who always gets the decision. Does he ships half assed half finished every single time, or does he take time to do some testing and not break production.

Developers do what the business wants them to.

Example?