EP24: Learnings from the Space Industry - Part 2/2 - The Challenger Disaster and on

Summary: This episode is a follow-on from our previous episode about the Apollo space program. Marcel and Todd talk about the failures surrounding the Challenger Disaster as a cautionary tail for today’s leaders to consider to avoid the same pitfalls. Please listen to “The Challenger Disaster: You’re wrong about - The Challenger Disaster” - 3rd Jan 2019 by Sarah Marshall and Michael Hobbes for full context: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-challenger-disaster/id1380008439?i=1000465289942 Please also listen to our previous podcast about the Apollo program as this is a follow-on discussion: https://burnupmedia.com/2020/04/13/ep23-learnings-from-the-space-industry-part-1of2-apollo-11/ The following topics are covered: The impact the challenger disaster had on NASA and our recollection of events The findings of the rogers commission Importance of listening to expertise Preventing a silo effect, where the procedures put in place box in taking logical action Designing for safety and understanding safe parameters, risk and probability The importance of communication unfiltered by middle managers Findings of the house of representatives committee report Dian Vaughn’s (sociologist) 1996 analysis of the disaster Government contracting and its role in the disaster High turnover at NASA and its role in the disaster A discussion about SpaceX and how they are approaching spaceship development is a more Agile way We hope you enjoy this episode. As always please feel free to give us feedback and share. Show Notes The Challenger Disaster: You’re wrong about - The Challenger Disaster - 3rd Jan 2019 by Sarah Marshall and Michael Hobbes https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-challenger-disaster/id1380008439?i=1000465289942 Challenger Disaster footage with radio loop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hqOdAi_t2c Radio communication transcript: https://history.nasa.gov/transcript.html Rogers Commission report https://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/genindex.htm https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/outreach/SignificantIncidents/assets/rogers_commission_report.pdf Richard Feynman at commission hearing demonstrates the o-ring issues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raMmRKGkGD4 House of representatives report https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRPT-99hrpt1016/pdf/GPO-CRPT-99hrpt1016.pdf Controversial Edward Tuft diagram analysis https://www.researchgate.net/publication/11520001_Representation_and_Misrepresentation_Tufte_and_the_Morton_Thiokol_Engineers_on_the_Challenger Dian Vaughn’s (sociologist) 1996 analysis of all 200k documents (by then the incident is a full fledged field of research, most based only on the exec summaries) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Vaughan Expanded show notes and leave questions or comments for this episode at: https://burnupmedia.com/2020/04/18/ep24-learnings-from-the-space-industry-part2-of-2-the-challenger-disaster-and-on/ Subscribe to the podcast at: http://theburnup.com/ Follow The Burn Up on Twitter: @burnupmedia Connect with us on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/burnupmedia Email us: podcasts@burnupmedia.com Read Marcel's Blog at www.thedigitalbusinessanalyst.co.uk More interesting stuff on our reading list: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/4905904-m?shelf=software-consulting This podcast is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Further Information at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/