A Bias for Due Diligence
"A bias for action" is a motto often heard from adherents of 'Agile' practices1 It is a call to develop systems by learning from mistakes made, revising, adjusting things as necessary. Some liken software engineering to 'science' because they can attach the label 'experiment' to the process of deploying code and gathering data its effects. Appealing as this rhetoric is, it misses and important point or two...