[DanielBMarkham]

It used to be that I would look at something like this and pronounce judgment. As I get older, however, I've learned that trying things is always good. See what happens!

My question would simply be: how would this be any different than using a small contractor? Or having really great people in a small team do the same thing?

In other words, what does a new organization and standards bring to the table that's not already there? Simply a new name? What do they do that you currently cannot do separately if you wanted to? Are you really suggesting something new, or just adding a bunch of buzzwords together in an effort to try to make something sound good? Or, to be even more provocative, is the goal here to actually do something, or create something that sounds like it might do something? Because they're two different things. We've been down this road of "Ok, let's set aside this special group, with these special criteria, and a new name" a hundred times. Best case -- it works at a very small scale. Worst case, same old, same old, just with new titles over all the stuff.