Comment Light Weight ISO 9001 Software Development (Score 1) 56
Cliff,
You may not want to hear this, but read on it gets better...
As a consultant who supports companies like yours with ISO 9001 (in fact it was one of the software team who sent me the link) there is a way to set up a light weight system and the only people you'll have trouble with are your internal ISO 9001 advisers. Why, because often the over-kill gets put in to ensure the company and therefore their position does not fail an assessment.
If I was advising you I would be asking you what you actually did to deliver your software and use this as a basis to move forward. It is understanding this core software development thread that is the key and this in turn is how we keep it light and 'real'. Real processes that are audited pass assessment because that is what the people are doing and it can therefore demonstrate without any problems.
So what can get in the way of this panacea?
Firstly, and I have never yet found someone who isn't, it is based on people wanting to do a good job. By this I mean that no-one is actually trying to avoid things like checking what they have done works etc. Secondly, you have not made any reference to the TickIT scheme through which your company may achieve ISO 9001 for software development. In either case we would need to talk further so I leave an open offer to help.
Best regards,
Richard
You may not want to hear this, but read on it gets better...
As a consultant who supports companies like yours with ISO 9001 (in fact it was one of the software team who sent me the link) there is a way to set up a light weight system and the only people you'll have trouble with are your internal ISO 9001 advisers. Why, because often the over-kill gets put in to ensure the company and therefore their position does not fail an assessment.
If I was advising you I would be asking you what you actually did to deliver your software and use this as a basis to move forward. It is understanding this core software development thread that is the key and this in turn is how we keep it light and 'real'. Real processes that are audited pass assessment because that is what the people are doing and it can therefore demonstrate without any problems.
So what can get in the way of this panacea?
Firstly, and I have never yet found someone who isn't, it is based on people wanting to do a good job. By this I mean that no-one is actually trying to avoid things like checking what they have done works etc. Secondly, you have not made any reference to the TickIT scheme through which your company may achieve ISO 9001 for software development. In either case we would need to talk further so I leave an open offer to help.
Best regards,
Richard
