Lean and Agile Auditing: virtual sessions

TITLE:

Lean & Agile Auditing

OVERVIEW:

Lean & agile techniques provide tools and techniques to eliminate waste, maximise impact and increase value adding activities – key for many internal audit functions. They lead us towards ways to audit in a progressive way. At the same time, we must remain compliant with IIA standards.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

Heads of internal audit, internal audit managers and experienced audit staff.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

Upon completion you will be able to:

• understand the fundamentals of lean, lean six sigma and agile
• reconsider who are the key customers of internal audit, what adds value and what doesn’t
• reflect on the audit planning process and role of IA – for example what should be our role auditing known/suspected issues?
• improve assignment planning, with key exam questions
• ensure stakeholders understand what is in/out of scope from a breadth and a depth perspective
• how to generate work programmes quickly
• drive “flow” through the assignment process by prioritising work in sprints
• Use scrums/stand-ups
• be clear about root cause analysis fundamentals (lean technique key for insight)
• enhance reporting and action-planning, both in terms of the length of reports, the way they are written and the process for agreeing actions
• understand the measures that drive lean/agile ways of working, but also ensure compliance with IIA standards – and do we really need timesheets?
• gain some practical insights around where to start first and some of the behavioural changes that are needed in the IA team

Read more here: Lean Audit / Agile audit – What’s the same? What’s different? by James C Paterson

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