In this episode my guest Bill Williams and I discuss the probability of one woman being hit twice in the stands while watching a baseball game.

Tim looney from North East Biomedical joins us to talk about best practices and common pitfalls in medical device design. Tim can be directly reached here.

Achilleas Dorotheou, of Parker Hannifin, shares with us the journey of transforming a team of bright young engineer into a mature team that creates highly reliable products.

In 1957 an unlikely event occurred, actually two events in sequence.  The odds these two events would occur seem almost impossible, but reframing what happens makes it much more probable. There is an interesting lesson to extract from what occurred to Alice Roth on August 17th 1957 about the vantage point for statistics.

Products programs aim to grab maximum market share with a carefully crafted balance of product factors such as, technology, time to market, cost point, and reliability.  Why do we so often not end up with a product that reflects that product factor balance?  It's how the goals are transferred to the team.  The Focus Rotation method is a tool to assist with making sure the full team holds the goal balance intended throughout the program.

Guest Ann Marie Neufelder from Mission Ready Software consulting joins me to discuss the most critical factors in developing highly reliable software. Ann Marie, with her team has created highly advanced models based on over 30 years of performance data. These models direct market leading companies in best development practices and the ability to predict reliability performance.

Rick and I discuss how software development and reliability has evolved over the past decades. It has gone from simple debugging, to "lint" and is now transitioning into AI.

A quick overview on how software reliability is different than electro-mechanical reliability.

There should be someone else in the room when making program decisions. It's the customer.  This is how to do it. The Phantom's Contract.