When developing software, I've long been jealous of system administration's "error budgets". If you are above your reliability target, you should be looser and faster. If you are below, you should be more careful and slower (address "tech debt").

This needs to be refined, but I think deadlines work to create a similar self-regulated system; management should be aware that setting deadlines or not having deadlines regulates the development process, like setting the error budget does.