[sickoflibs]

I remember ISO9000. That was the early 1990s. Wasnt that related to European protectionism from the cheap East Block countries? Weren't all the processes just non-sense bureaucracy to keep small firms out?

Almost two decades later and real requirements and software processes have been developed.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Weren't all the processes just non-sense bureaucracy to keep small firms out?

Something like that. Microsoft adopted ISO9000X so they could sell their stuff in Europe, so everybody else who wanted to sell stuff in Europe got ISO9000X certification. One guy in our area wrote a play in which he had a 6-foot stack of paper. He measured it with a tape measure to see if it would conform to ISO9000X "Let's see if your documentation measures up." Surprisingly, the big bosses let him perform the play at company meetings.