Deepwater horizon a systems analysis of the macondo disaster shines a spotlight on the very high risk situations that demand a consistent systems approach at all levels and from all parties it demonstrates that however popular or trendy they are today streamlined agile approaches dont work in all situations. Deepwater horizon a systems analysis of the macondo disaster by earl boebert and james m blossom cambridge ma harvard university press 2016 304 pp isbn 978 0674545236 volume 28 issue 2 rangaraj ramanujam. Deepwater horizon a systems analysis of the macondo disaster shines a spotlight on the very high risk situations that demand a consistent systems approach at all levels and from all parties it demonstrates that however popular or trendy they are today streamlined agile approaches dont work in all situations. In 2010 bps deepwater horizon catastrophe spiraled into the worst human made economic and ecological disaster in gulf coast history in the most comprehensive account to date senior systems engineers earl boebert and james blossom show how corporate and engineering decisions each one individually innocuous interacted to create the disaster. Stanford libraries official online search tool for books media journals databases government documents and more