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Ideas:

• Actually do deliberate design work (perhaps, in pairs or groups)
• Review design and architecture (RFCs)
• Use an RFC template, design/architecture review checklists
• Prototype UI
• Try to verify the design before implementation
  • Model and simulate systems
  • Build Proof-of-Concept
• Do shorter design/architecture iterations, avoid Big Design Up Front
• Document the decisions that don’t warrant a full RFC
• (Please add more ideas)

Related:

• Strategies for attacking project risk
• Benefits of pair programming, ‣
• Set up quick feedback loops for the work
• Prototype to buy information
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• Verify ideas before implementation
• Make shorter iterations in an unknown space
• Use agile practices in a complex space
• Delay architecture decisions as much as possible