Chairman SteveApr 14
Matt Weagle
“The lesson is what it took to make that learning happen: a catastrophic, public, entirely avoidable disaster, witnessed by thousands. Jacobsson already knew what needed to change. He simply hadn’t felt able to say so with sufficient authority until the failure was so large and so visible that a change of approach was essential.”
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
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Show threadDave דוד MangotApr 14

@mweagle I love that this resurfaces and makes the rounds every few years.

Shout out to Pete Cheslock for first bringing it to the DevOps community

https://petecheslock.com/vasa/

The Vasa

The Vasa Redux from Pete Cheslock Vasa Case Study The Fate of the Vasa (HBR Case Study) $$ PRI - New Clues Emerge in Centuries-Old Swedish Shipwreck The Vasa Capsizes Vasa Museet Why the Vasa Sank - 10 Problems and some Antidotes for Software Projets Gorgeous Decay: The Second Death of the Swedish Warship Vasa 5 Min Ignite Talk - 17th Century Shipbuilding, And Your Failed Software Project

Pete Cheslock
Show threadMatt WeagleApr 14

@davemangot Yeah - it's a great article. Thank you Pete!

There's been a lot of technological change in 400 years, but power gradients, sunk cost, and production pressure persist.

Show threadPete Cheslock 🥩Apr 14

@mweagle @davemangot I ALSO love this keeps coming back around. One of my favorite talks I ever gave.

But technically I stole this from Andrew Shafer.

Good devops borrow, great devops steal. 😂