"Old-school computing has a term 'molly guard': it’s the little plastic safety cover you have to move out of the way before you press some button of significance.

Anecdotally, this is named after Molly, an engineer’s daughter who was invited to a datacenter and promptly pressed a big red button, as one would.

Then she did it again later the same day."

https://unsung.aresluna.org/molly-guard-in-reverse/

#mistake_proofing #management #engineering

"Mistake proofing in no way should limit focusing on improving the process. #mistake_proofing a process both improves it (many poka-yoke solutions make the process easier to use) and prevents an error in case you still try something wrong. So I see the automated tests as a way to serve as a backstop, in case the process improvement you made to the #softwaredevelopment process failed in some form."

https://management.curiouscatblog.net/2010/05/19/mistake-proofing-deployment-of-software-code/

#Management #organization_as_a_system

Poka-Yoke (#mistake_proofing) is one of my favorite ideas. I just love the idea of not only making something that works well but making something that is difficult to have work badly...

https://management.curiouscatblog.net/2005/12/12/poka-yoke-assembly/

#management #quality_tools #design #process_management

Quick Mistake Proofing Ideas for Preventing Date Entry Error

https://evop.blogspot.com/2012/05/quick-mistake-proofing-ideas-for.html

These ideas are not innovative but they still are often absent from web sites 😠

#management #usability #mistake_proofing #softwaredevelopment