[SystemSafety] A small taste of what we're up against

[Olwen Morgan]

On 29/10/2018 07:38, Peter Bernard Ladkin wrote:
>
> On 2018-10-29 00:24 , Les Chambers wrote:
>> The most potent drivers of safe software are:
>> 1. The skills and motivation of the people writing the code
>> 2. The processes they use to cooperate
>>
> Something you will hear often from management specialists is that
>
> the most potent driver of safe <anything> is that assurance of safety is a board-level priority,
> with a specific director whose responsibility it is.

You'll have to excuse me for what may seem undue cynicism but whenever I 
hear phrases like "potent driver", my management BS alarm goes off. When 
the engineers are plain ignorant, should we expect the management to be 
any better? Not in my experience.


Olwen