Single Points of Failure

Testing Peers

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast.

This time, Jesper Ottosen joins Russell, David and Chris as we discuss single points of failure.

As ever, we begin with our first email handles - as it turns out ours weren't so embarrassing and have persisted, but at least we break the ice!

Diving into the main topic, the group quickly talk about the single points of failure as people.

"what if they go on holiday?" " what if so and so wins the lottery?" and so on.

Are there robust handover processes in place?

Russell then moves the thinking to systems and processes that affect. Thinking about HR or payment systems.

The Peers discuss what mitigation looks like, continuous processes iterating as we go along, as well as validating these systems - think fire and safety drills.

We talk also about business continuity and disaster recovery.

How do you identify these in your workplace? How do you prepare?

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