Back in my Tulip Craze days when I was privileged enough to manage a group of programmers, I had two trump cards:

1. A full time God of Perl/Security Guru
2. A Hard Core Well Financed QA Department.

These people saved my time and my ass so many times in so many ways. All I had to do was make sure that the big wigs understood how important these people were.

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