Vehicle issues

A software engineer, hardware engineer and branch manager are en route to a meeting when their car brakes fail on a steep mountain road. The car careers out of control, bouncing off crash barriers until it grinds to a halt half way down the mountainside. The occupants, shaken but unhurt, find themselves now stuck halfway down a mountain in a car with no brakes. What should they do?

"I know,"says the branch manager, "Let's have a meeting, propose a Vision, formulate a Mission Statement, define some Goals, and by a process of Continuous Improvement, find a solution to the Critical Problems, and we can be on our way."

"Well," says the software engineer, "before we do anything I think we should push the car back up the road and see if it happens again!!"

"No, no" says the hardware engineer, "That will take far too long, and besides that method has never worked before. I've got my Swiss Army knife with me, and in no time at all I can strip down the braking system, isolate the fault, fix it, and we can be on our way."