CHAPTER 1: STEP 1 – ESTABLISHING THE PCI PROJECT

One of the most important and often neglected tasks you should first consider is the project documentation. Any aspect of work that requires resource, time and effort, demands to be treated as a project in itself. Failure to follow this simple advice may lead to serious complications and worse – repercussions for your PCI compliance programme. PCI requires a serious amount of commitment and cannot be treated as business as usual.

To start, you should ensure an appropriately qualified project manager is assigned the task of overseeing the PCI programme. As any project manager will tell you, all the requirements of a project need to be assimilated and transposed in to a single document. This document ...

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