To me risk assessment, even though I know it's important, will always be something MBAs force on developers because they are jealous of people who might actually have fun doing their job.
My experience is business-type people see risk assessment as one of those duh things that doesn't need all this overhead. They then ask for inane, stupid shit, and parrot whatever they heard this week. Middle managers then just go by feel--what gives them the willies is unacceptable, and what they're comfortable about seems acceptable.
This is a sick and dysfunctional atmosphere; as an engineer, I find it appalling that you would build anything--software, business processes, machines--without a strong ri
If you're installing a TV transmitter, you have a device at 2000 feet that, if broken open and unshielded, produces enough energy to melt people's faces off at ground level 500 meters away from the tower base.
These transmitters are 500,000 watts. I did the math once and figured the transmitter 3 miles from my house would expose people to 2000W of microwave radiation on the ground for several blocks. This would ignite trees and houses, and melt people.
Helicopters aren't legally allowed near the tower.
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To me risk assessment, even though I know it's important, will always be something MBAs force on developers because they are jealous of people who might actually have fun doing their job.
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My experience is business-type people see risk assessment as one of those duh things that doesn't need all this overhead. They then ask for inane, stupid shit, and parrot whatever they heard this week. Middle managers then just go by feel--what gives them the willies is unacceptable, and what they're comfortable about seems acceptable.
This is a sick and dysfunctional atmosphere; as an engineer, I find it appalling that you would build anything--software, business processes, machines--without a strong ri
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If you're installing a TV transmitter, you have a device at 2000 feet that, if broken open and unshielded, produces enough energy to melt people's faces off at ground level 500 meters away from the tower base.
I call bullshit.
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These transmitters are 500,000 watts. I did the math once and figured the transmitter 3 miles from my house would expose people to 2000W of microwave radiation on the ground for several blocks. This would ignite trees and houses, and melt people.
Helicopters aren't legally allowed near the tower.