Have you looked into registered reports? That approach would seem to address many of your points about getting formal feedback earlier, before a study is carried out.
Project Management Theatre has been an absolute curse on software engineering for the past 20 years, please, let’s not have science befall the same fate. What you’re suggesting really boils down to a corporatisation, a further encroachment by the bean counters, those who must always calculate the loads and the capacities and the deadlines and take twice as long at three times the cost just in planning before anything actually gets done. Again, please, no!
Have you looked into registered reports? That approach would seem to address many of your points about getting formal feedback earlier, before a study is carried out.
Project Management Theatre has been an absolute curse on software engineering for the past 20 years, please, let’s not have science befall the same fate. What you’re suggesting really boils down to a corporatisation, a further encroachment by the bean counters, those who must always calculate the loads and the capacities and the deadlines and take twice as long at three times the cost just in planning before anything actually gets done. Again, please, no!