I very much like this line of thinking, but I have to admit that I’m not hopeful that there are very many nontrivial cases where it’s actually possible to satisfy everyone. Certainly do so when you can, and don’t forget to explore the possibility.
A lot of the cases where this comes up for prioritization, the wants are many orders of magnitude larger than the resources you currently have, so you’re really arguing about priority of effort, and that effort is a very limited resource. Worse, expending effort to find clever alternate approaches eats into the effort that’s under contention.
Many other cases are about social cohesion and agreement more than about resources, and “let’s both be right” is unsatisfying. I don’t have a lot of sympathy for these cases, but I do notice that they’re abundant.
I very much like this line of thinking, but I have to admit that I’m not hopeful that there are very many nontrivial cases where it’s actually possible to satisfy everyone. Certainly do so when you can, and don’t forget to explore the possibility.
A lot of the cases where this comes up for prioritization, the wants are many orders of magnitude larger than the resources you currently have, so you’re really arguing about priority of effort, and that effort is a very limited resource. Worse, expending effort to find clever alternate approaches eats into the effort that’s under contention.
Many other cases are about social cohesion and agreement more than about resources, and “let’s both be right” is unsatisfying. I don’t have a lot of sympathy for these cases, but I do notice that they’re abundant.