Laws of Software Engineering · Saying
Saying
Confirmation Bias
You see what you expect to see.
How to use it. In incident analysis, write down what would prove you wrong. Ask "what would change my mind?" before you decide.
How it gets misused. People point it at other people's reasoning and never at their own.
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Inversion
Solve a problem by asking how it could fail. Work backwards from there.
- Practice Pre-mortem Before starting work, imagine it has failed. Ask why. Document the answers. Plan against them.