What's the point in trying to ensure traceability, ensuring there's an audit trail of all changes, ensuring

Question

there is a baseline to which the audit trail of changes may be applied ? Murphy's law says somewill muck it up, or will have already.

Isn't it all you can do to paper over and cover up any problems you know of and hope your new safety-critical systems you have ordered arrive before the old systems cause an accident ?

Answer 1

because you need to find a way, just any way to organize... life?