The difference between an avoided event and a strategic win is rarely the engineering itself; it is how the outcome is framed.

Every engineer is going to have a bad day, but only an unlucky few will have a day so bad that it registers on a seismometer. We’ve always had a morbid fascination with engineering mega-failures, few ...

Students in Vincent St-Amour’s new Responsible Software Engineering course are analyzing case studies of software failures and exploring tools and techniques to prevent similar disasters Software ...

If you’ve talked to an engineering nerd or a tech bro recently, you’ve probably heard the phrase “fail fast, fail often” a lot. The idea is simple: Value trying and learning from failure rather than ...

Over the past several decades studying verification practices across the semiconductor industry, I’ve watched assumptions that once held up remarkably well begin to strain under the weight of modern ...