Welcome to BQ – standardizing never ends!

This is one of the four quadrants of COL that I did not dare to take on as the first quadrant to talk about – only because what I am going to say on this quadrant will be somewhat controversial. Hence, I had to set a standard for myself on what I would do with this quadrant or how I deal with the quadrant that sets the standards in setting up a standard on what COL needs to communicate.

When I stopped to ponder upon this quadrant, I realized that it is never possible to set a standard and adhere to it for long. With my experience in IT for over two decades, I came to the conclusion that all standards will be transitory. However, I came to the realization that length of the transitory period defines in one way or the other the robustness of the standards set henceforth. But, how do we get that sort of robustness into the standards?

It is easy to see the standards bubbling up the chaos of the very environment that will be controlled in future through these standards. Hence is easy to argue that chaos is worth having to ensure robust standards. However, I would venture to go on and say, in other words, longer the chaos shorter will be the robustness of the standards and shorter the chaos the longer will be the robustness of the standards.

It is natural to assume that longer the chaos the resulting standards will be more robust. However,  I will prove it in my next blog that it is not really is the case. I will again do it through the help from COL.