Design for Trustworthy Software: Tools, Techniques, and Methodology of Developing Robust Software

Brassard has prepared a checklist of behavioral skills that must be mastered, in addition to technical skills, if you want to be really effective in using these tools:^[21]

• Trust the process.

• Value brainstorming.

• Observe discipline.

• Be patient.

• Trust your initial gut reactions.

• Treasure listening skills.

• Know when to stop.

• Recognize when the tools are inappropriate.

• Bring integrity: people commit to use the outcome of the process.

• Respect flexibility and creativity, and tolerate ambiguity.

• Value, don't simply tolerate, the different perceptions of others.