tom_geraghty1d ago

The Vasa sank in 1628 because the people who knew it would sink didn't feel able to say so to the people who could have done something about it.

We wrote up the full case study — Vasa Syndrome, authority gradients, and what the sister ship tells us about organisational learning.

https://psychsafety.com/the-vasa-disaster/

The Vasa

The Vasa Disaster A few years ago, I was working for a client in Stockholm and in some free time, I visited the wreck of the Vasa, the world’s best-preserved 17th-century ship. She’s housed in a museum built specifically around […]

Psych Safety
Show threadCatherine Sharp
@tom_geraghty I visited the Vasa museum last year, and when the tour guide was explaining how failure to listen to the test team led to the sinking, I was having horrible flashbacks to too many (thankfully non-fatal) years in software development...
Apr 11 at 2:43pmWeb