By Mike Deliman
The phone rings. A customer has an application destined for a high-risk environment, and somewhere in test they've found a new unanticipated condition. A "Tiger Team" is formed - a group of experts who've "been here before", who understand the priority and the risks, and know how serious it is. Many times a Tiger Team may give the go / no-go, the final answer that either saves a mission, or drops all that work into the dust-bin. Such a team itself represents a *lot* of work, frustration, and time - investigations may run on days, weeks, or months, as long as they reach their conclusion on-time. And there's the one facet that can't be changed by any engineering practice: Time.
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