Problem choice and decision trees in science and engineering: Cell

one of the most important and subtle questions in science is problem selection. How do you choose what to work on? No one tells you what to do. And you do have to answer this question multiple times. With a company, in some sense, you have to decide it once, and then it's an iterative process from there. Whereas in science, you're frequently pursui... See more

It's up to the architect to foresee these outcomes and decide whether they are comfortable with them. Does it matter where this lands, or does it make sense to constrain the available choices in some way? Will this make life easier in the long term and help you to manage costs, or will it merely undermine agility without delivxering any tangible be... See more