is there a keyword for "line by line going through a process and trying to evaluate which steps can be cut without damaging the outcome?" is there a science of this?
if it's a cooking recipe, you just try skipping a step and observe if it ruins the dish. for more expensive or risky projects, you sometimes can't actually run that experiment. ("what happens if you skip this safety step at the nuclear reactor?")
but even nuclear reactor designers need to control costs. so I wonder how they streamline things. Asking the relevant experts "ok so what happens if we don't do this step? with what probability?"
