1. Understand the result you want. 2. List possible ways to achieve this result(whether this be ways to debug a program or similar) 3. Weight each option to eac

1. Understand the result you want. 2. List possible ways to achieve this result(whether this be ways to debug a program or similar) 3. Weight each option to each other doing simple cost-benifit 4. Follow cheapest method that gets the results done.