This is going to sound extremely harsh and cold, but those are realities. And, frankly, I'm not sure those realities should change. Liability will always catch up with a company. Yes, some people may be adversely affected. Some of those people may be people I know and love. I will be very furious by that and attempt to address it. That doesn't mean that my philosophical stance is any different.

Before you return back with an idea that you can predict risk, let me put this in front of you - if the current risk-averse culture had been in place a hundred years ago, we would NOT have:

I'm sure I could come up with another 500 items like that. Risk drives innovation. Without high-risk/high-reward, there is no incentive. Think about that before you respond.
My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

In reply to Re^2: IT decisions are driven by business needs by dragonchild
in thread IT decisions are driven by business needs by dragonchild

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