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Auditor Advice
To be a good auditor, keep these 10 key points in mind when auditing a software development project:
1. Have a checklist
When you are doing an audit of a software development project, you should have a checklist that you will use as a guideline to perform an audit. The checklist can be obtained from the quality department of your organization, or you could create one and recommend it to the quality department.
Having the checklist helps the auditor focus on the deliverables that need to be audited and also on the quality defects of those deliverables. This would tell the auditor whether the project should have a communication plan and what defects to look for in a communication plan and so forth.
2. Know the process
The auditor should know the process that is followed in the organization for a software development project. What is the methodology that is followed, what are the templates that are used for the various project deliverables, what is approval process and so on?
The auditor should also know the various phase gates and exit points of the process. This will enable the auditor to determine whether a deliverable that was required in a phase was completed or not, whether the right template was used in creating the deliverable and whether it had the required approvals in place.
For example, a business requirements …
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