17-721 Failure Based Decision Making

12 units, Carnegie Mellon University

Failure is not uncommon yet is universally dreaded, and a great deal can be learned through analysis of failures. In fact, study of failures is applicable as a quantitative design technique in some engineering disciplines. It is widely recognized today that failures actually lead to acute lessons essential to future success. This course will provide an opportunity to analyze technology failures with a focus on ethics of ICT innovation. The course will involve projectbased learning, individual or small group, through failure analyses of one or more cases current or classic, viz. Boeing 737 Max or Facebooks struggles with privacy problems in the technology domain. The analysis is expected to apply some combination of lenses including those of but not limited to software engineering methods and practice areas, technology strategy, strategic technologies, innovation theory and management.

Prerequisites: none listed

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