> No, it's not. Accountability is very precisely "your fault", that's all it is. That's pretty much the definition of it. That. Accountability (worse: "person

> No, it's not. Accountability is very precisely "your fault", that's all it is. That's pretty much the definition of it. That. Accountability (worse: "personal accountability" and variants thereof) are a tool provided by the law to determine who to recover damages from after a failure has occurred. It is entirely unsuitable for failure prevention because it is entirely orthogonal to rigorous testing and a culture of workplace safety. Anyone who insists on accountability on their project does not know what they need. What they get is an extraordinary amount of ass-covering, finger-pointing and blame deflection, though.