[potamic]

What's the distinction between rules and principles here, given that you've explicitly called out not principles?

[throw827474737]

Principles are never to be broken and sometimes their cause forgotten, rules have flexibility or exceptions and a good reason most can agree to. ;)

[trhoad]

I was actually going for the opposite - but that's my fault. What I meant was wishy-washy "guidelines" are often ignored or considered optional. Put in place tooling (rulesets) and processes that make it very difficult to architect a poor system.

[potamic]

Processes I understand, could you give some examples of tooling/rulesets that one could use?