(I should've really said "Cisco design engineering team" rather than just one engineer; this is very much a combination of process & oversight failures)
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(I should've really said "Cisco design engineering team" rather than just one engineer; this is very much a combination of process & oversight failures) 12 comments
@gsuberland This is a mistake by the Product Manager. But also, it should have been caught by the test team. That said, it's a PM mistake. Stuff like this happens, and then it's all about how the team responds. Oh, and I haven't checked lately, but I don't think those boots are part of the connector standard. @VintageVeloce @gsuberland it is terrible design regardless. Having a reset button not recessed AND in a place where clumsy fingers inserting the cable could accidentally push the button is just poor conception. @Bmcraec @gsuberland @Bmcraec @gsuberland @gsuberland To be fair to that team, there's an extremely good chance that when the chassis was designed, it was still before widespread adoption of those protective boots. @BalooUriza It was ~2013, so protective boots were very much a thing. @gsuberland Aah. I guess I didn't see them become ubiquitous until a couple years ago. I guess ethernet cables have long lives, since I started seeing them under desks before in datacenters. @gsuberland yes.. A lot of people didn't realise until the first accidents happen, I guess. π @gsuberland yes this is what impresses me the most. This passed the whole validation chain ! π @gsuberland I was going to say just that: that this is not an individual contributors fault, is the whole process that failed. #BlamelessCulture works better for avoiding these kind of things. |
@gsuberland I was about to say, blaming one person is a bit rich. The fact that it made it to production indicated a total breakdown of their processes.
Still wild though βΊ