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mononcqc's review against another edition
5.0
This is a great book. Leveson covers so much it verges onto the impossible to completely get through.
There is a weaving of chapters introducing great, terse overview of decades worth of theory into systems, safety, resilience, and cognitive engineering disciplines, and of chapters applying STAMP and its derived methods to various real world examples.
The author’s lens is centred on hazard analysis, processes for feedback, and control mechanisms to manage them.
In the end I’m unsure how I would go about applying her methods as-is in the comparatively small scale, low budget projects I am part of; but I also come out with a very useful unifying view that covers tons of papers I’ve read and casts them all with that lens. Some of the ideas in there I already started using in some form, even before I was done.
So despite the long text that becomes somewhat of a challenge, this book id still very much worth it.
There is a weaving of chapters introducing great, terse overview of decades worth of theory into systems, safety, resilience, and cognitive engineering disciplines, and of chapters applying STAMP and its derived methods to various real world examples.
The author’s lens is centred on hazard analysis, processes for feedback, and control mechanisms to manage them.
In the end I’m unsure how I would go about applying her methods as-is in the comparatively small scale, low budget projects I am part of; but I also come out with a very useful unifying view that covers tons of papers I’ve read and casts them all with that lens. Some of the ideas in there I already started using in some form, even before I was done.
So despite the long text that becomes somewhat of a challenge, this book id still very much worth it.
keathley's review against another edition
2.0
I'm sure there's good information in this book. But its *so* hard to find it. I didn't even really finish it. I just stopped because I couldn't keep going.
isovector's review
3.0
Good thesis, that engineering mistakes are more often systems mistakes. If you defund all of the safety mechanisms, of course things are going to be disastrous when they do go wrong. I've seen this time and time again during my engineering career, where the business people and project managers care only about safety in reactionary circumstances.
I abandoned this book about a quarter of the way through though, because my god is it long.
I abandoned this book about a quarter of the way through though, because my god is it long.
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