#6 – ROLLING RISK DOWN HILL – PAUL KOSTEK – SUPPLIERS@RISK
In this article I’m not addressing the risk of skateboarding or skiing. Rather when I say rolling risk down hill, I’m referring to allocating risk and the associated identification and management of...
View Article#7 – SOFTWARE RISK MANAGEMENT – PAUL KOSTEK
For anyone involved in risk management the thought of applying risk techniques to software opens many questions, including can we really identify risk areas in code? Can we identify what software...
View Article#8: UNADDRESSED RISK – PAUL KOSTEK
What’s the risk of not addressing a risk? What happens on a project when a risk is identified and not addressed/mitigated? There may be reasons not to correct it, e.g low probability of occurrence...
View Article#10 – ALARP – AS LOW AS REASONABLY POSSIBLE – PAUL KOSTEK
ALARP – As Low as Reasonably Possible. For anyone with any experience with risk management this is one of the key terms used to make a decision about applying risk mitigations. It is used when going...
View Article#15 – AGILE PROJECTS AND RISK – PAUL KOSTEK
Agile has become a prevalent process in the management of projects. A process where we constantly roll out updated software (for this article’s purposes, can be used on any type of project). How do we...
View Article#17 – WHAT ARE THE RISKS OF SELF DRIVING VEHICLES? – PAUL KOSTEK
You’ve no doubt read about Google’s driverless car and the effort at the state level to gain permission for its use on public roads. DRIVERLESS CAR RISKS There are the obvious concerns and risks...
View Article#21 – COULD YOUR PACEMAKER BE HACKED? – PAUL KOSTEK
Hack a pacemaker? Is this a real problem? Some recent experiments have been able to hack a pacemaker and other medical devices including an insulin pump. The weakness of these systems was the analog...
View Article#24 – PERSONAL RISK AND BIG DATA – PAUL KOSTEK
I usually write about risk as related to projects, but several of the comments I received on my article on “Can Your Pacemaker be Hacked” made me realize that we are all faced with risk management in...
View Article#29 – SPACE TOURISM – PAUL KOSTEK
After writing several articles about topics related to medical devices and big data, thought I’d explore a new area, risk and space tourism. Though I will include one interesting note about medical...
View Article#31 – RISK AND COMPLEX PROJECTS SUCH AS THE OBAMACARE WEBSITE – PAUL KOSTEK
With the recent go-live of the ACA (Obamacare) website we saw another example of a complex project introduction go badly. There are a host of reasons for the problems, requirements changing,...
View Article#44 – USING RISK AND SAFETY ANALYSIS AS PART OF THE REQUIREMENTS PROCESS –...
Frequently in my work as a systems engineer I’m faced with producing several artifacts for a project, typically a system architecture, model(s), requirements, safety analysis and risk analysis...
View Article#101 – PROTECTING CONNECTED CARS – PAUL KOSTEK
The recent news reports on the hacking of the Fiat Chrysler Jeep U-Connect system creates new worries for manufacturers, engineers, drivers, government agencies, and insurance companies. A recall is...
View Article#109 – REQUIREMENTS DEVELOPMENT AND RISK MANAGEMENT – PAUL KOSTEK
One of the keys to a successful project is having a set of requirements that are well defined and stable. We’ve all worked on projects where a lack of defined and controlled requirements has led to...
View Article#111 – VW ‘ROGUE ENGINEERS’ MADE THE DECISION – PAUL KOSTEK
“To the best of my knowledge today, this was not a corporate decision,” he said. “This was a couple of software engineers who put this in for whatever reasons and I would also like to find out.” The he...
View Article#118 – UAV’S COMING TO YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD – PAUL KOSTEK
Here in Seattle we’ve had several interesting incidents/accidents with personal UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) or drones. In one case a person flew their UAV into the Space Needle, no damage and no...
View Article#126 – HUMAN FACTORS AND RISK – PAUL KOSTEK
There is an aviation old joke that in the future the airplane will have a crew of two, a pilot and a dog. The pilot to feed the dog and the dog to bite the pilot if he tries to … Continue reading →
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