In the Design Phase, group pre-Design Review meetings provide engineers with forums to expand their knowledge base of design techniques by exchanging Design Templates. Design inspection results will be greatly improved if they are preceded by brief, informal reviews that are highly-interactive at multiple points throughout the progression from system architecture through low-level design. Prior to the final stage of design, Software Failure Analysis is used to identify core and vulnerable sections of the software which may benefit from additional run-time protection by incorporating Software Fault Tolerance techniques.