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by mannykannot 2184 days ago
One more unsung hero: Barry Boehm, who, in "A Spiral Model of Software Development and Enhancement" (1986), expounded on a iterative process in which each cycle is driven by an asssessment of the biggest risks threatening the satisfaction of the stakeholders' 'win conditions'. Does that sound familiar?

In answering the original question, one would hope that focusing on the risks to successful completion should de-prioritize the fixing of things that are unlikely to become problems in practice.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/12944.12948