What makes a principle useful
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In this lesson
tell real principles from slogans.
Planned topics
- A principle is a durable rule of choice that guides decisions across projects.
- Useful: it is specific enough to change a decision and can be disagreed with.
- Useless: "use best practices"; nobody can choose the opposite.
- Principles come from business strategy and constraints, not from technology fashion.
Draft outline details
Demonstration
two lines side by side: "Be secure" (platitude) and "Customer data is accessed only through owned APIs, never by direct database reads from other systems" (usable).
Check your understanding
What test shows a principle is not a platitude?
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A sensible person could argue for the opposite, and it changes some decision.
Practice
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