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RE: Segregation of Development and Production Networks
From: "David Gillett" <gillettdavid () fhda edu>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 08:52:43 -0700
Marketing I can see, but accounting? They tend to be REAL conservative. (Lumping Marketing in with Accounting is one view of how Enron ran into trouble....) Dave Gillett -----Original Message----- From: Walter Wart [mailto:ribbit () speakeasy net] Sent: October 2, 2003 17:39 To: security-basics () securityfocus com; gillettdavid () fhda edu Subject: RE: Segregation of Development and Production Networks
Best practices dictate that production operations fall under the company Operations structure which, if not a separate division in its own right, is part of the finance and accounting organization. Development is usually part of an Engineering structure. COO versus CTO. This seems to be the only way to give production operations the necessary authority to reject stuff out of engineering that isn't quite "ready for prime time".
Strange, my experience has been that the accounting and marketing types are more likely to push for release of stuff that isn't ready and promise the moon to the hapless victims^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcustomers while engineering is trying to apply the brakes. Sometimes to the point where things that should have been released weeks ago are still being polished. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- Segregation of Development and Production Networks WhtWlf2001 (Oct 02)
- RE: Segregation of Development and Production Networks David Gillett (Oct 02)
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