Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.
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.
There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.
First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.