You outline a lot of deployment risks that share many elements with hardware development risk (which is a subset of the larger risk portfolio you address). The reliability engineering field has many tools to identify and manage risk (failure mode identification, FMEA, mitigation, testing, etc.) which are agnostic to the system or process being analyzed. E.g., they would apply well to a lower-level hardware component or subsystem, a complex cross-functional system, a larger plant or operation, or to the business endeavor or sector as a whole.
I'd be interested to hear your experiences on how and where you have seen these tools and methodologies used in the deployment of energy hardware projects.
Thanks @Scott Stanford ! Apologies for the delayed response - just seeing this now on my Substack account. Much appreciated! Great point on the reliability engineering tools. I’m coming at this from my product management, partnerships and strategy background - rather than from a reliability engineering perspective. However, I’m confident the tools you mention would provide another excellent lens from which to view these risks. Definitely welcome any additional points as I’ve been periodically updating (including just now related to solid-state batteries and EVs) the field guide for new information or any corrections as relevant. Hoping to keep it as a living document for the near future.
Eric: Great, thorough article.
You outline a lot of deployment risks that share many elements with hardware development risk (which is a subset of the larger risk portfolio you address). The reliability engineering field has many tools to identify and manage risk (failure mode identification, FMEA, mitigation, testing, etc.) which are agnostic to the system or process being analyzed. E.g., they would apply well to a lower-level hardware component or subsystem, a complex cross-functional system, a larger plant or operation, or to the business endeavor or sector as a whole.
I'd be interested to hear your experiences on how and where you have seen these tools and methodologies used in the deployment of energy hardware projects.
Thanks @Scott Stanford ! Apologies for the delayed response - just seeing this now on my Substack account. Much appreciated! Great point on the reliability engineering tools. I’m coming at this from my product management, partnerships and strategy background - rather than from a reliability engineering perspective. However, I’m confident the tools you mention would provide another excellent lens from which to view these risks. Definitely welcome any additional points as I’ve been periodically updating (including just now related to solid-state batteries and EVs) the field guide for new information or any corrections as relevant. Hoping to keep it as a living document for the near future.
damn, this is a crazy good resource.
Thanks @Silas Mähner ! Apologies for the delayed response - just seeing this now on my Substack account. Much appreciated!
Eric you know you hit it out of the park when the author of a "Catholic Founders" newsletter says "damn" :)
Hi @birgitte - apologies for the very slow response. I love that so much - hysterical!!!
I have the patience of the eternal, all good :)