Swimming Upstream in Turbulent Waters: Auditing Agile Development

Swimming Upstream in Turbulent Waters: Auditing Agile Development

Priyadarsini Kannan Krishnamachariar, Manish Gupta
ISBN13: 9781522526049|ISBN10: 1522526048|EISBN13: 9781522526056
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2604-9.ch010
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Krishnamachariar, Priyadarsini Kannan, and Manish Gupta. "Swimming Upstream in Turbulent Waters: Auditing Agile Development." Information Technology Risk Management and Compliance in Modern Organizations, edited by Manish Gupta, et al., IGI Global, 2018, pp. 268-300. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2604-9.ch010

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Krishnamachariar, P. K. & Gupta, M. (2018). Swimming Upstream in Turbulent Waters: Auditing Agile Development. In M. Gupta, R. Sharman, J. Walp, & P. Mulgund (Eds.), Information Technology Risk Management and Compliance in Modern Organizations (pp. 268-300). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2604-9.ch010

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Krishnamachariar, Priyadarsini Kannan, and Manish Gupta. "Swimming Upstream in Turbulent Waters: Auditing Agile Development." In Information Technology Risk Management and Compliance in Modern Organizations, edited by Manish Gupta, et al., 268-300. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2604-9.ch010

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Abstract

Agile approach is a pragmatic fashion of software development, wherein the requirements are flexible to the changing needs of the customers, fast paced markets and the iterations of software are implemented and delivered based on business priorities. A risky or experimental project where the project requirements are not clear/not defined well in advance, are the most suitable candidates for adopting agile approach, as agile enables us to work with calculated risks during development, aiming to reduce the risks. The value of any implementation is realized only if it delivers benefits to organization and users, which could be assured by effective auditing of the implementation by understanding the implications of agile approach and figuring out right audit techniques and processes. Many organizations already have well established audit functions and matured IT Audit procedures for auditing traditional SDLC waterfall processes. Yet the methods for auditing software development based on agile approach requires a different attitude and audit techniques that goes well with the proactive nature of agile approach. This paper aims to present risk based audit approach on the agile implementation of software development, how risk identification and assessment can be merged along with the phases of software development and the ways by which agile techniques can be effectively utilized as tools for audit.

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