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Agile and the Orders of Ignorance
maybe, just maybe, there is something here we do not know to the ultimate
darkness of complete, sublime, and intentional ignorance.
We can divide each of the lower four levels into three sections, which
have quite different characteristics.
Zeroth Order Ignorance (0OI): I have 0OI when I (provably) know
something … That is, I have the answer
The issue with 0OI is the word “provably.” Unless I can prove that I know
something, it is entirely possible that I do not. For example, suppose I hap-
pen to choose not to test a system because I think it works just fine — it
would be very ambitious and more than a little foolish of me to claim that
this system “works.” Most software engineers would assert that unless you
have ...