On Friday, 17 November 2017 at 15:27:06 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
It is interesting that you mention this. Our product manager was talking to our senior developer about this very thing. He explained that it was a method of development that an employee at his previous company came up with at that the approach was very effective once implemented.
Just give it a nice 'product' name, like "Conscientious Defensive Programming".
Now it's a lot easier to get people on board, even senior management ;-)