[ale] OT: Development practices

[Christopher Fowler]

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 10:53, Christopher Coleman wrote:
> We are having to do the same thing here. Making sure that all changes 
> are placed in the change control system, documenting systems, use the 
> same helpdesk software throughout the company, etc. Its mainly for 
> systems and developement that deal with the financial side of the house. 
>   But we are implementing changes through our IT departments

So if a bug suddenly causes an accounting error then it could be tracked
via change control.

> .
> 
> Chris
> 
> John Wells wrote:
> > Christopher Fowler said:
> > 
> >>I'm ignorant to this.  How does Sarbanes Oxley impact the development
> >>department of any public company?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On the contrary, everything I've read and seen indicates SOX affects
> > almost *all* development shops at public companies.
> > 
> > In our case, we develop and maintain a very large ERP system that
> > maintains almost all aspects of our business (i.e., high potential of
> > impact to revenues).
> > 
> > Thus, change control processes, documentation, etc. is all of extreme
> > interest to our SOX auditors.
> > 
> > John
> > 
> > 
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