Failure Mode. A named way a system, pattern, process, projection, or organization can break, degrade, drift, or produce unsafe outcomes under pressure. A failure mode is useful only when it connects a condition to its consequence and expected response: what triggers it, what truth or safety it threatens, how the system should contain it, and what evidence would prove the response worked.
Failure Mode
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Incoming References
Law 2
- Documentation Is Architecturelaw-08-documentation-is-architecture
- Systems Degrade Better Than Organizationslaw-07-systems-degrade-better