Role: Reliability Czar
This role is assigned to the person(s) responsible for specification for and adherence to reliability requirements and regulations.
Role Sets: Architecture
Relationships
Main Description
This role only exists within projects developing high-reliability systems or applications. The Reliability Czar role is active throughout the project development and participates and oversees the following activities
  • Specifying reliability requirements
  • Analyzing work products for reliability, including
    • Requirements
    • Use Cases
    • Requirements scenarios
    • Architecture
    • Algorithms
    • Classes, functions, and variables
    • Test suites and test cases
    • Configuration Management approach
  • Performing Fault Means Effect Analysis (FMEA) to determine relations of faults, hazards, risks, and control measures
  • Reviewing work products for adherence to reliability requirements and/or regulations
  • Performing traceability between reliability requirements and work products

With the explicit allocation of responsibility for reliability, high-reliability projects can be run more efficiently and productively, while reducing the risk of failing to meet the safety needs of the developed product.

Staffing
SkillsThis role needs to understand the operation and failure states and modes for the system and system elements. This role must be able to perform the mathematical analysis to determine reliability and interpret the results of that analysis.