Prove Assumptions

"It's not what you don't know that kills you... it's what you know that isn't so." TomDeMarco, TheDeadline.

Assumptions by their nature are difficult to question. Yet these assumptions can lie at the core of your project. Therefore, prove the assumptions that underly the work you're doing.

Possible Techniques:

• IdentifyAssumptions? (sometimes already quite hard)
• RulesOfOptimization
• SpikeSolution

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Philosophical or mathematical, it is, of course, impossible to absolutely ProveAssumptions: ThereIsNoAbsoluteTruth?.

But what does this boil down to in real life? Testing, testing, and more testing.