It makes me happy to know others are thinking in terms of trade-offs as goals.

I wrote an article about this from the perspective of avoiding software technical debt, but I have to admit, this article does a better job on explaining why it works than my own article (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

https://connected.io/post/how-to-avoid-technical-debt/ tldr: You can find overlap or convergence by applying PCA on a trade-off matrix.