This is Fine! A podcast about resilience engineering and software

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This is Fine! A podcast about resilience engineering and software

Show Notes

A huge thanks to our panelists: ⁠John Allspaw⁠ ⁠Jed Needle⁠ ⁠Chad Todd⁠ RISF and TiF will host a live follow up to this episode on July 31st! You can sign up here: ⁠https://resilienceinsoftware.org/networks/events/133948⁠ If you’re interested in Lund’s Masters of Science program in Human Factors and Systems Safety, or any of their learning labs, you can check out more info here: ⁠https://www.humanfactors.lth.se/⁠ ⁠Adaptive Capacity Labs⁠ is how Jed was introduced to some of the concepts of LFI & Resilience Engineering, which eventually landed him at Lund. John mentioned SciShow Tangents, a podcast by Hank Green and Ceri Riley: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/c/scishowtangents⁠ As well as Conway’s Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law And Dunbar’s Number: ⁠https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number⁠ And the Theory of Graceful Extensibility, which you can read about here: ⁠https://infoscience.epfl.ch/server/api/core/bitstreams/87cfe245-c138-43cb-87c9-4062dc1a0519/content⁠ Lund theses list: https://www.humanfactors.lth.se/ny-sajt/msc-programme/msc-theses/ Our panel’s select theses that they love: Colette’s pick: ⁠https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication/9106422⁠ Chad’s pick: ⁠https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication/9009930⁠ John’s picks were all of the software theses, I’m probably missing some but this is my attempt: John’s (was the first): ⁠https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication/8084520⁠ J Paul Reed: ⁠https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication/8966930⁠ Chad’s thesis on handovers in software: ⁠https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication/9076274⁠ Michael Wettick: ⁠https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication/9150096⁠ Colette’s thesis on QRA: ⁠https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication/9148570⁠ Jessica De Vita: ⁠https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication/9149521⁠ Dr. Raymer’s I want to Treat the Patient and Not the Alarm: ⁠https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication/2861164⁠

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