Chapter 9. Recommended Practices

with Noopur Davis, Chad Dougherty, Nancy Mead, and Robert Mead1

1. Noopur Davis is a Principal of Davis Systems, a firm providing software process management consulting services since 1993. Chad Dougherty is a Systems/Software Engineer at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science. Nancy Mead is a Principal Researcher in the CERT Program of Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute (SEI). Robert Mead is the Information Security Program Director in the Queensland Government Chief Information Office, Australia.

Evil is that which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

—Henry Lewis Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy

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