With the recent string of high-profile software project failures, from the Healthcare.gov website to the Target / Home Depot data breaches – in many cases caused by a lack of planning, understaffed teams, or underperforming project managers and architects, the field is ripe for creation of a regulatory body to provide guidance and ensure compliance to development standards. While the actual implementation of a wide-reaching government-sponsored regulatory system is still at least a decade away, the early stages of such a system are already becoming apparent in both business and technology.
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