Florian HaasImagine someone rewrote the Kama Sutra four times, and the final accepted version covered only masturbation.
Then you have a good understanding of the evolution of ISO 9001.
I wish I was joking.
Feel free to read up on the history of the ISO 9000 series if you don't believe me:
annaf@xahteiwi I’m curious to know because it’s on my list to do in case my business gets above the 5 employees mark but I’m still scarred by the experience from a past employment where the group implementing the quality management system took the full first meeting deciding on the numbering system for the documents we would produce in the process of developing the quality management system!
@annaf As the Wikipedia article outlines, it started out perfectly reasonably: 3 norms, one for quality in design and production, one for quality in "just" production, and one for quality in inspection and test.
Then there was one iteration in which the focus shifted from detecting problems to preventing them. Fine.
But then it went off the rails, to where the only thing you can now get certified on is the QM *system*, so you get audited on the quality of the system to ensure quality. Nuts.