Foreword
Today you can hardly read about a disaster without hearing about complexity. When nearly any human-made system fails, complexity is named as one of the causes. The Boeing 737 Max flew for three years before it was recognized that some of the alterations made when they increased the length of the fuselage could lead, and have led, to fatal accidents. The multi-year grounding of the entire fleet starting in March 2019, while seeking improvements to make such a complex system safe, has been extraordinarily costly, not only for Boeing but for the airlines that fly the aircraft and for passengers and their organizations.
Today’s software-enabled and highly technological systems are so interrelated and so highly coupled that even small irregularities ...
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