I don’t see any value in these principles.

Minimal Viable Products over prototypes

What’s the difference?

APIs over databases

I feel like this is a terrible decision that has nothing to do with data science.

Clever use of computation over convenient assumptions

Why not both?

Dashboards over reports

Dislike this as well. Dashboards don’t contain analysis.

Validation, scrutiny and repeatability over convention and ad verecundiam

Sure, but this is not controversial