RE: Segregation of Development and Production Networks

["David Gillett" <gillettdavid () fhda edu>]

  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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