Training Aids and Standards Automation

While reading through a mountain of standard operating procedures related to my company's policies for the development and operation of medical devices, it occurred to me that being fully aware of and to make full utilization of sed policies requires a full-time position. This not necessarily reasonable for everyone involved in the process of engineering medical devices and information systems in support of the same.

The scope and complexity of so many procedures also incurs a tremendous amount of overhead. Time and money spent performing many boilerplate tasks is time and money that can be spent providing better value elsewhere.

I am reminded of AWS's "Well Architected Framework" or "Well Architected Tool" (whatever it's being called). The WAF or WATool provides a comprehensive strategy and checklist for meeting various important criteria in an AWS deployment. The content and guidance could easily be externalized and declarative and therefor easily extensible for capturing baseline and evolutionary system state.

Come up with a taxonomy that supports a decalrative model to capture and guide persons to achieve comprehensive policies over stringent product development lifecycles.

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