[SystemSafety] Big claims and duff data

[Paul Sherwood]

On 2018-09-20 22:15, DREW Rae wrote:
>  The argument against "getting it right first time" is that we don't
> always know what "right" looks like first time. Design, as it is
> practiced in the real world, is iterative, and complex systems involve
> many such  parallel and serial iterative design processes.
> 
>  In any other field of practice, if I saw managers being as
> hypercritical of frontline practices as software safety people are
> about software development - particularly with the moral overtones - I
> would be deeply skeptical that they really understood the constraints
> and concerns of frontline work.
> 
>  Most workers, most of the time, are neither stupid or evil. If they
> aren't working the way managers think they should be working, chances
> are there's something the managers don't understand about the work.

+1, although I do encounter a surprising number of software workers who 
appear not to doing the necessary thinking.