ISO to me seems like an absolute nightterror of an organization. The Main-Moderator of https://old.reddit.com/r/iso9001 https://old.reddit.com/r/iso9001 runs a

ISO to me seems like an absolute nightterror of an organization. The Main-Moderator of https://old.reddit.com/r/iso9001 https://old.reddit.com/r/iso9001 runs a blog here: https://www.oxebridge.com/emma/latest-blog-posts/ https://www.oxebridge.com/emma/latest-blog-posts/ And almost every time I read anything from there, I just… Ugh. I don't even know where to start with describing the extent of just how much of a shitshow ISO represents. Edit, perhaps like this: After for many years intensely thinking about the organizational problems involved, I've come to a conclusion which seems rather very absurd to me: ISO could only deteriorate to this degree because of two things: 1. An absurd number of decades-long-standing bugs in Microsoft Word's Master Documents feature: http://www.addbalance.com/word/MasterDocHudson.htm http://www.addbalance.com/word/MasterDocHudson.htm. This tacitly yet tremendously increases the organisational costs of writing policy, process documentation, work instructions, &c. documents in a truly fully standardized manner (don't even get me started about ISO authoring tools, especially not about their internal ones. Microsoft Word Wizard .wiz files. I almost fell from my seat when I originally learned of that.); many of those working in pure IT organisations fail to realize this because there exist a lot of workarounds implementable when one has a large tech-affine workforce, but these workarounds don't work in large traditional enterprises. Some of those have invested in workarounds—most haven't, think they couldn't, and thus won't. 2. A feature parity gap in the file save dialog behaviors of Microsoft Excel (Filename suggestion doesN'T get pre-populated based on Document Title file metadata field) when compared to those of Microsoft Word (Filename suggestion DOES get pre-populated based on Document Title file metadata field). This makes semverdoc.org enforcement impossible in large organisations still stuck in e-mail–as–version–control–for–Microsoft–Excel–land, i.e. the majority of them, and There no replacement exists for Microsoft Excel in most large enterprises. Everything else seems like it just mostly comes down to sociopaths hiding behind cluelessly middle-managed misunderstandings. And the really sad thing: If said sociopaths really grok'd all of this, they'd probably do their damnest to undo this middle management incompetency compensation competence failure, because while it might seem like this ends up profiting /someone/, it actually does seem like it actually represents one of those rather very rare true loss–loss–loss scenarios. Come to think of it, see also: The subtle horror of IBM's Zachman Framework, as well as technical writing skills: https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=31896609 https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=31896609 Well… And then there's simply this comic: https://www.oxebridge.com/emma/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/06-04-2022-H.png https://www.oxebridge.com/emma/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/06...