Safety Critical Applications Planning, Design and Development Checklist
In Part 1 I covered some aspects of what constitutes Mission Critical and Safety Critical systems, as well as some high level general concerns. Here, I’m going to provide a simple checklist for these types of products, followed by more detailed explanations of each of the checklist line items.
Suggested Checklist for Mission / Safety Critical Products
The following list may seem appropriate for any type of development work. But see the more detailed explanations below to understand how they’re special for Safety Critical issues.
- Have a culture of safety
- Budget Appropriately
- Assess level of rigor needed
- Choose appropriate project methodology
- Assess Risk
- Get to the real, actual users, somehow
- Re-think how you think about Design
- Account for user types, training and skill levels
- Create easily trackable and auditable systems
- Consider Architectural Implications
- Plan for potential failure – Communications and Fix Plans
- After launch validation
So now let’s go just a bit more in depth for these areas. As with Part 1, this list covers the basic concerns and you can just stop here if you like. Thanks for stopping by. Or… Read on for details.
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