Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.
There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.
The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.
Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack.
Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.