Because a shiny new feature that takes 1/10th of the time gets 10x more praise and attention.
Because naive senior vice president MBAs believe there never should have been bugs in the first place, and every fix is an admission that the bug existed at all.
Because every email is now a weekly contest between teams, and when hard times come the ones who reported on performance improvements and bug fixes will lose their jobs long before the ones who made the header the president's favorite color.
Because every email is your team trying to convince the company of your own worth and it's much harder to show a pretty screenshot of a performance improvement than a new feature (Graphs of before/after performance every week? Every week?)
Because bugs don't always follow your bullshit schedule made by a bullshit manager who is looking for a pat on the back by replacing bullshit A with bullshit B, instead of anyone anywhere in the company ever just trusting anyone.
Because naive senior vice president MBAs believe there never should have been bugs in the first place, and every fix is an admission that the bug existed at all.
Because every email is now a weekly contest between teams, and when hard times come the ones who reported on performance improvements and bug fixes will lose their jobs long before the ones who made the header the president's favorite color.
Because every email is your team trying to convince the company of your own worth and it's much harder to show a pretty screenshot of a performance improvement than a new feature (Graphs of before/after performance every week? Every week?)
Because bugs don't always follow your bullshit schedule made by a bullshit manager who is looking for a pat on the back by replacing bullshit A with bullshit B, instead of anyone anywhere in the company ever just trusting anyone.