Monthly Archives: June 2017

Outsmart Murphy by Managing Your Critical Planning Assumptions

When NASA’s $125  million Mars Orbiter crashed during the landing phase, a later analysis showed that the spacecraft builders worked in the metric system. NASA assumed, but for some reason failed to verify, that the builders were using the English measurement system of feet and inches. Thus, the Orbiter’s computer contained bogus data and the …

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