Fair enough. I recognize the formalism approach is tantamount to cargo culting. I guess what you are saying is: broach the ideas in the context of the problem.

Fair enough. I recognize the formalism approach is tantamount to cargo culting. I guess what you are saying is: broach the ideas in the context of the problem. "The foobar intermediary service will help us transition safer and faster than rewriting at once and doing a big switch". Instead of "we should use transitional architecture to avoid a Big Bang". If you follow me. But I have no real evidence that "safer and faster" is empirically true. I can appeal to authority in Fowler's website, but that's what we are trying to avoid. If my lead can't see the intuition in the idea, or refuses to seek out case studies, etc, you can't do much right?