I've heard more acronyms in the last two months than I've heard in my previous career, and they're all based on these systems. They all sound wonderful, and they probably are all wonderful systems, but no one has yet told me how they verify that they actually work and whether they have people qualified to work inside them. There doesn't seem to be a method of determining whether the people running the system are qualified to make it work. The systems are imposed on top of a workforce that's already there, who may or may not have the skills to do it. With an overreliance on a system, are we more safe or less safe than we were when we were just looking at a system to see whether it would work?
On June 1st, 2009. See this statement in context.