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by p_l 868 days ago
Nope.

The process was there so that the people would know there was work being done on the doors despite not being there for it. If you see an unfinished work from a previous shift, it does not mean you can start messing with it - there might be context you do not know.

Which is why such things are supposed to be noted in appropriate ways. Similarly why aviation has so many procedures everywhere - because we know and understand that sometimes you miss things. For any human reason, not just mismanagement. The process is a way to have reliable place to double check with.

This is different from over reliance on automation, which is arguably less of an issue of automation itself (it's just more visible in such areas) as much as getting out of training because you do not encounter certain things so often. 96 people died because in a stream of many deviations, among other things, the crew never trained how to do IFR landing without ILS, autopilot or no autopilot.

The process is the part that says "yeah, I haven't done this in a long time, I need to train, here is documentation that provides we need to do it and can't delay".

Similarly CMES is supposed to track "work was done on this part of the ticket, now different work needs to be done, do not assume it will be done by other teams"