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Life Cycle Management For Dependability

Dependability has always been an vital attribute of operational systems, regardless of whether they are highly-specialised (like electricity generating plants) or more general-purpose (like domestic appliances). This volume provides a highly-readable overview of the topic, concentrating on dependabi...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Redmill, Felix (Editor), Dale, Chris (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Springer London 1997, 1997
Edition:1st ed. 1997
Subjects:
System Performance And Evaluation
Software Engineering
Computer System Failures
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1 This Business of Dependability
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Defining Dependability
  • 1.3 Users’ and Society’s Needs for Dependable Systems
  • 1.4 Some Failures of Systems Which Should Have Been Dependable
  • 1.5 Achieving and Assessing Dependability
  • 2 Getting the Culture Right
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Factors Affecting Organisational Performance
  • 2.3 So What is Culture?
  • 2.4 Characteristics of a Dependability Culture
  • 2.5 What Happens if We Get It Wrong?
  • 2.6 Developing the Right Culture
  • 2.7 Final Remarks
  • 3 Policy and Planning for Dependability
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Definitions
  • 3.3 Compilation and Presentation
  • 3.4 General Contents
  • 3.5 Specific Content for Individual Life-cycle Phases
  • 3.6 Summary
  • 4 Measurement and Assurance
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Software Project Management and Management Challenges
  • 4.3 Simple Process Measures
  • 4.4 Refining the Measures
  • 4.5 Best Practice
  • 4.6 Use of the Measures
  • 4.7 Assurance
  • 7.3 Levels of Approval
  • 7.4 Management Responsibilities
  • 7.5 The Maintenance Cycle — The Maintenance and Modification Management Model
  • 7.6 Revalidation and Configuration Management
  • 7.7 Maintenance of System Architectures for Dependability
  • 7.8 Engineering Aspects
  • 8 Practical Risk Management
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.2 What is Risk?
  • 8.3 Risk Management Goals
  • 8.4 Uncertainty and Risk
  • 8.5 A Simple Approach
  • 8.6 The Management of Risk
  • 8.7 Tolerable Risk and the ‘ALARP’ Principle
  • 8.8 A Simple Tool for Risk Analysis
  • 8.9 Action Plans Against Risk
  • 8.10 Beware of Underestimating Risk — Three Laws
  • 8.11 Final Remarks
  • References
  • 4.8 Conclusions
  • 5 Third Generation Project Management
  • 5.1 The Challenge for Project Management
  • 5.2 What is Project Success?
  • 5.3 What Makes Projects Fail?
  • 5.4 The Essential Elements of Project Management
  • 5.5 The Characteristics of Successful Managers
  • 5.6 A Final Note
  • 6 Operations Management for Dependability
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Trends in Computer-related Systems
  • 6.3 Incidents and Insights into Dependability
  • 6.4 Organisational Structure, Management and Competence
  • 6.5 Documentation, Including Operating Instructions
  • 6.6 Contingency Planning
  • 6.7 Security and Access Control
  • 6.8 Hand-over Approval for Live Operation
  • 6.9 Training
  • 6.10 Preventative Maintenance and Calibration
  • 6.11 Repair, Modification and Change Control
  • 6.12 Reviewing Operations
  • 6.13 Decommissioning from Live Operation
  • 6.14 Regulation
  • 6.15 Lessons and the Future
  • 7 Managing Maintenance and Change
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Some Principles

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