Laws of Software Engineering · Saying

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Murphy's Law

Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

How to use it. Use it as a prompt for chaos engineering. If something can fail, cause the failure on purpose, on a Wednesday.

How it gets misused. Treated as a planning input, as if it were a risk register.

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Practice Pre-mortem Before starting work, imagine it has failed. Ask why. Document the answers. Plan against them.
Saying Inversion Solve a problem by asking how it could fail. Work backwards from there.