Impact Analysis / Analysis Overhead
Kind: tension
Record: tension:analysis-overhead-impact-analysis
Canonical: Schema
"impact-analysis" (evolution-principles layer) is traded against "Analysis Overhead" (evolution-principles layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Analysis Overhead" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Code Review / Throughput and before Gap Analysis / Time Cost.