>I don't know if you've heard of the book, "The Vision of the Annointed" by Thomas Sowell but I would highly recommend it.
Essentially Dr. Sowell discusses the differences between those who think in terms of 'solutions' as opposed to those who think in terms of 'tradeoffs'.

Sounds interesting, I'll check it out.

>By 'solutions' he means those who think that their 'solution' is absolute - oall too often at the expense of the notion of unintended consequences. Those who think in terms of 'tradeoffs' understand that there will always be consequences - not always favorable.

So the software analogy is that devs are the solutionists, and testers (possibly PMs, too) are the "tradeoff-ists".