The point put forth in this article is that a certain degree of scientific rigour is important in running a business and it&#x27;s a principle that is broadly generalisable. In particular in software development one encounters the philosophy of &quot;get it out the door quick&quot; regardless of the cost to quality. Engineers are often viewed as a cost-centre rather than the actual producers of value in a business when the bottom line is evaluated. It should be clear to us that businesses that actively capture and nurture engineering talent (google, apple, facebook etc.) are the businesses that are doing better at the moment than those that focus on &quot;unit cost&quot; of &quot;resources&quot; (e.g. IBM, HP) and many are now trying to make that transition as we can see from the trend towards more engineer-friendly processes such as Scrum (away from the more punishing &quot;waterfall&quot; style approaches).