  Formal Methods for the Informal Engineer (FMIE) was a workshop held at the
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in 2021 to explore the potential role of
verified software in the biomedical software ecosystem. The motivation for
organizing FMIE was the recognition that the life sciences and medicine are
undergoing a transition from being passive consumers of software and AI/ML
technologies to fundamental drivers of new platforms, including those which
will need to be mission and safety-critical. Drawing on conversations leading
up to and during the workshop, we make five concrete recommendations to help
software leaders organically incorporate tools, techniques, and perspectives
from formal methods into their project planning and development trajectories.
