[SystemSafety] Comparing reliability predictions with reality

Robert P Schaefer rps at mit.edu
Wed Feb 26 16:35:40 CET 2025


hi, Peter.

  sorry, for some reason this went to my spam folder.
 
  I have worked on my share of successful large projects and failed projects. 

  I cannot discern a difference that can be tied to one single thing. 

  And once you look at many different things, causality quickly gets lost.

  I’ve read, and believe in, Reason's swiss cheese model of faults, I wonder if there’s an equivalent swiss cheese model of success?

bob s.

> On Feb 24, 2025, at 11:51 AM, Prof. Dr. Peter Bernard Ladkin <ladkin at causalis.com> wrote:
> 
> Bob,
> 
> On 2025-02-24 16:38 , Robert P Schaefer wrote:
>>  short comment, processes that are viable on small projects do not (and I believe cannot) scale to large projects
> 
> You must surely know that I am aware of scaling problems. I do not go with your "cannot".
> 
> What do you say to the manifest success with the reliability of critical avionics?
> 
> PBL
> 
> Prof. Dr. Peter Bernard Ladkin
> Causalis Limited/Causalis IngenieurGmbH, Bielefeld, Germany
> Tel: +49 (0)521 3 29 31 00
> 



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