Have you ever wondered why the same problems seem to keep trickling down to the testing phase? The specification was misinterpreted, the test case wasn’t right, the software didn’t meet requirements...
Lindsay’s work on organizational alignment puts this down to ‘The Fog’: a confusion caused by misunderstandings, biases, assumptions, different interpretations, behaviours, and information gaps, among other things. While a certain amount of Fog is inevitable, it can build up between people to…
Reluctantly, the tech industry has owned up to its deep social, political, and moral impacts. Now the hard work begins. A slew of ethical aids have emerged – toolkits, card decks, playbooks – but the true challenges run deeper, caused by complex human trade-offs, misaligned values, and faulty incentives. Can concerned technologists genuinely shift the moral cultures of high-performing tech firms? Will ethics become a shared industry commitment, or forever remain a mere discussion point?
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