Greetings,
I was listening yesterday to an interview [1] on NPR with Dr. Atul
Gawande, author of "Checklist Manifesto" [2]. He describes the
problem that medical procedures (e.g., surgery) tend to have lots of
mistakes, mostly caused because of leaving out important steps. He
claims that 2/3 of
I think it's a great analogy. If you'd like to read more without ordering
the book, here's an article Gawande wrote for the New Yorker in 2007:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_gawande
Brian
On 1/7/10 7:11 AM, "Jeremy Epstein" wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I was listenin
I think there's lots of applicability. People - especially techies - cut
corners. The pressure is usually to get things done in a certain amount
of time, and then add on that people like to generally expend as little
energy as possible, and viola! you see the problem.
Of course, the flip side is t
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Jeremy Epstein
wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> So as I was listening, I was thinking that many of the same things
> could be said about software developers and problems with software
> security - every piece of software is unique, any non-trivial piece of
> software is amaz
hi sc-l,
I am pretty sure that Brian Chess used to have this in his standard talk some
many years ago. Then again I am getting old.
Great analogy. Note that checklists DO NOT take the place of the intensive
care staff!
gem
On 1/7/10 10:11 AM, "Jeremy Epstein" wrote:
Greetings,
I was lis
