&You are the Engineering Manager for a B2B fleet software platform. Your team is under pressure to ship a revenue-critical customer workflow in the next quarter, but the codebase already has a growing backlog of tech debt, flaky tests, and a few recurring production incidents tied to the same service. Product wants to keep scope intact, Sales has committed to a launch date, and your senior engineers are warning that another rushed release could slow the team down for months.
How do you balance short-term delivery with long-term engineering health?
