Well, yes, but there is a tiny little detail that is drop dead important. To 'document' is defined as having management involvement and approval.
With that, comes accountability. Legal accountability. Many PHB's are so because they are skilled at misdirecting and managing perceptions as to is responsible for what. Consider the PHB team that intentionally runs a loose shop and eventually gets bit. Their first line of defense is blaming those airhead techies that should have known better and should not have allowed that to happen. Never mind that the firewalls were cut from the budget as was training. And that seems to work somewhat. Witness the number of former high management now sitting in prison. Just my $0.02 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 8:14 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Auditors (was: Survey says...) In <[email protected]>, on 01/06/2009 at 04:11 PM, Hal Merritt <[email protected]> said: >In many parts of the world, auditor behavior is spelled out in ISO 9000. "Crap is okay as long as you document that it is crap." -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any files transmitted with it are intended exclusively for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. The message, together with any attachment, may contain confidential and/or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, printing, saving, copying, disclosure or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately advise the sender by reply email and delete all copies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
