Going to bed now...

[bjarvis]

After my haircut this morning, I dashed into one of my employer's downtown offices to print off the completed policy documents, 199 pages in all. God willing, on Monday I get a tonne of signatures on these papers from various corporate directors and that particular portion of my Sarbanes-Oxley death march (SODM) will be completed.

Which takes me to the second step of my SODM. sigh

A policy describes the legalize about various practices within my department. Standards describe a specific implementation of the policy so every standard needs to be (a) written and (b) linked back to its relevant parent policy document. Operating guidelines list considerations for a given UNIX platform in support of the standard. Procedures are precise, line-by-line instructions on how a task is conducted such that a trained chimp an intern could do it successfully.

The hierarchy looks something like this:
policy -> standard -> operating guideline -> procedures

Some policies were already 99% assembled but they needed links to policies. I've finished that small task tonight, as well as updated my spreadsheet tracking all of these little pieces. I can sleep now.

Tomorrow, I have to revise my tracking spreadsheet further, ensuring that I have a to-do list of standards which must yet be written to comply with my freshly minted policies. Whee. And on Monday, I get to start writing those missing standards.

I don't even want to think about the procedures and operating guidelines documentation yet.