Group meeting with Steve McNew. Steve is an independent auditor and project manager. He is currently retired and working on a number of volunteer and community projects. Steve Berkenkotter, from adilas knows Steve McNew from their early high school days. This was a preliminary meeting to start the process of flushing out some of the topics that need to be visited in an internal software audit.

Great meeting. It went for about 2 hours and we had 10 different people on the call. See attached for some of the notes that were taken. Some of the 10 people represented: users, power users, consultants, project managers, developers (coders), client IT departments, business investors, and systems admin and DBA's (database administrators). Good mix.

These were the topics set forth by Steve McNew:

My top 7 areas of focus for the audit:

1. System Architecture

2. Implementation Plan(s)

3. Metrics - system monitoring, key development metrics

4. Configuration Management

5. Root cause analysis

6. Risk management plan and process

7. Standards compliance, for example PCI

Other stuff:

1. Org Chart

2. V&V approach

3. Estimation methods

4. SW development methodologies

5. QA / QC approach and practices