not specifications that shift like sand in the desert

Standards Are Not Just Stuff and Nonsense | Unrepentant

Submitted by michael on Thu, 01/01/2015 - 16:03

Many organizations are themselves large, lumbering beasts, lacking the agility,
flexibility and luxury to push the envelope and explore the fringes. The poor folk who work
there instead have to rely on and comply to STANDARDS, not specifications that shift like
sand in the desert, but codified, nailed down, no-way-but-this-way STANDARDS. Academia,
Governance, heck even large Corporate sites all have to meet Standards requirements to
conform to a slew of trivial things like laws, shareholders, marketing and branding, and a