Standards without control?

[martinig]

A recent poll wanted to know if programming standards are still in use in development organisations... and if they are controlled. The question was: does your organisation implement programming/coding standards?

None...............................20%
Yes, but without control.....49%
Yes, with control...............31%

Participants: 369

Source: Software development magazine: UML and agile approaches, programming, testing

A majority of the participating organisations have coding standards... and a majority does not control them ;o) What is the situation at your location? Does this lack of control really hurt?

[WingedPanther]

We have coding standards. If you can't follow a few basic coding standards, odds are that you won't be able to do the actual coding, and thus won't last long. I don't know if you'd call that a control or not.

[martinig]

Some organisations have nice standards hidden in a server directory and they never control if the code delivered by the programmers respect these standards. It could be an automatic or a manual inspection of the code.

[AfTriX]

Yes we follow the Standards since we are working only with some small Business Solutions.