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Talk about throwing votes away. If John Ashcroft had announced his intended resignation three days ago, GWB would have won by 10%.

Film at 11.

A few days a week, I've been working with about eight other people to redefine the software development lifecycle for a large-ish organisation. We're trying to achieve compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for an IT organisation of about 1000 people, within a corporate headquarters of about 6000 people. (100k enterprise)

Within this organisation, they have varying levels of development immaturity. We're talking CMM level 1, with some groups peeking up at the floor of level 2. Not that I'm a big CMM fan, but I think it helps you get the picture.

I've noticed two things that I will call "amusing" for want of a better word. The first is that every company seems to feel the need to tailor their own SDLCs. Usually, they start cutting code and producing software without thinking about how to do so. Eventually, the whole things becomes unwieldy, and they think,"We need some process!"