Dealing with Auditors: Helping Them Understand Agile

It is widely understood that agile mitigates project execution risks. However, auditors and regulators unfamiliar with the agile process often reject it as non-compliant. In regulated industries, organizations seeking to adopt agile are often challenged to provide evidence that prescribed processes are being followed and can be evaluated to ensure adherence. This issue is compounded when auditors expect a more traditional, artifact-driven process, which, in an agile environment, does not necessarily mitigate the risks for which they were designed. To harness the power of agile and still satisfy internal compliance groups, we must address their concerns. Steve Nunziata describes opportunities to educate auditors on the power of cadence and content of agile ceremonies, while avoiding falling into the “artifact trap” of waste by layering compliance artifacts over the top of agile processes. Learn how to leverage key agile tenets of visibility and transparency in meeting required audit needs―with greater quality and fidelity than ever before.