Ah, I recomember.
In the NYC contracting world, an agency will often have a standing contract for PMQA, which stands for Project Management Quality Assurance. PMQA will have access to all the developing contractors Project Management team and artifacts to assure they are performing according to contract. (Assuring that the contract calls for PM performance that will assure quality is out of scope, but that’s another story.)
Apparently, the real role of the PMQA team members is to make lots of noise so the Agency knows it is “getting its money’s worth.” I haven’t seen that written anywhere. I’m inferring it from the DSS PMQA vendor’s behavior.
The downside is, we have to respond to said noise.
Ah, well, sest la vai, as they say in France.
Heh, good one.