From the course: Agile Software Development: Creating an Agile Culture
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Avoiding groupthink
From the course: Agile Software Development: Creating an Agile Culture
Avoiding groupthink
- [Narrator] On January 28th, 1986, teachers around the world turned on their televisions so that their students could watch the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger. This was a special day because a teacher named Christa McAuliffe was part of the crew. However, disaster struck just 73 seconds after blast-off. The rocket exploded and no one on board survived. A presidential select commission was assembled to investigate the cause of the tragedy, which was traced to the failure of a relatively small part, a faulty O-ring. As part of the investigation, a social psychologist named Irving Janis, who specialized in group decision-making, testified before Congress. While most people were eager to point the blame at a single irresponsible individual, Janis insisted that no one involved acted out of malice, ignorance, or even incompetency. So what was to blame if there were no bad actors or sabotage? Groupthink. People on…
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