regulatory requirements

I Still Can’t Find What I’m Looking For — The Materiality vs. Prescriptiveness Controversy in Project Management Oversight

I’ve had a number of conversations over the last four months on this issue, mostly from the technical solution side rather than the issue side.  But intent does eventually translate into action and so it is an important issue to tackle.  Usually this issue comes up within the context of the purpose of audit.  But then, we have to understand the purpose of audit itself within the context of project management.

For example, it is assumed that in project management that we are dealing with an oversight and regulatory regime.  There are dichotomies to this.

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Forget Domani — The Inevitability of Software Transitioning and How to Facilitate the Transition

The old Perry Como* chestnut refers to the Italian word “tomorrow” and is the Italian way of repeating–in a more romantic manner–Keyne’s dictum that in the “long run we’ll all be dead.”  Whenever I hear polemicists talk about the long run or invoke the interests of their grandchildren trumping immediate concerns and decisions I always brace myself for the Paleolithic nonsense that is to follow.  While giving such opinions a gloss of plausibility, at worst, they are simply fabrications to hide self-interest, a form of tribalism, or ideology, at best, they are based on fallacious reasoning, fear, or the effects of cognitive dissonance.

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