How complex systems fail (2002) [pdf]

Post by JauntyHatAngle » Mon, Aug 14, 2017, 12:13 AM UTC

qualitytime wrote: post #6

TL;DR Spend 80% on expensive consultants qualified in "project management method" such as PRINCE2/V-Model and make a f *g nightmare for the people who actually try to make it work. A picture is worth a thousand words: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Systems_...

Funny, my thought was the opposite.

Having worked in heavily bureaucratic organisations, I was reading the pdf as an allegory of the blame game and safety first heavily bureaucratic, process driven culture big orgs have, which do nothing to do actually reduce risk - rather it stifles people actually being able to, and wanting to, change anything.

Basically I came away with the opposite to what you said.

Post by jodrellblank » Mon, Aug 14, 2017, 2:32 AM UTC

taneq wrote: post #18

jodrellblank wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really? The ancient ones, the humans who lived before my birth - those who launched rockets to the moon and detonated city destroying bombs with atomic power, feats no country has matched in these declining years of civilisation - they also had faster than sound passenger aircraft. Although it might be the tendency to exaggerate stories with time, rose-tinted glasses and the myth of the noble-savage.

There's a common theme amongst many of those heroic feats: They tended to occasionally catch fire, fall out of the sky and/or explode at inopportune times. It's the difference between prototype and a production. The Saturn V rocket and the Concorde were both prototype-grade vehicles. The marvel of them is that they worked at all. Now that we've proved the point, we won't put either "into production" unless it's relia…

'Production quality' things spontaneously catch fire these days, too.

http://www.theclever.com/20-dangerous-cars-with-the-highest-...

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