Part V

Policy Matters

Small companies do not have time for policies; they greatly operate on ad-hoc decisions or half-baked analysis. Of course, they have to as they do not have hundred grand lying around to hire a system analyst to study and report implications of technology choices.

However, with a little bit of massaging, you can really come up with some basic technology policies that can yield a great return over time. I have attempted to provide you with a set of basic framework-grade policies for the most common needs. The following chapters cover these base technology policies.