Risk – our friend or our foe?
summary
Risk is both opportunity and hazard and the useful claim is that testers must quantify and communicate that tradeoff, not just warn vaguely. Concrete examples recur: a Downtown Disney costume rule that is routinely waived because actual harm is low, Kodak choosing safety over digital innovation, and a project where calculated support costs many times the testing budget justify release plus intensive manual nursing for the first month. Diversity of perspectives and ISO notions of freedom from risk help decide when to embrace, accept, control or avoid risk.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Intro
- 4:38Risk vs Safety
- 9:00Risk is a friend
- 14:18Risk is a foe
- 15:12Economic risk mitigation
- 17:42Health and safety
- 19:36Environmental risk mitigation
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