Clarissa Lucas

Picture this... You're starting your work week off just as you do most other weeks. Your first meeting is your team's backlog refinement meeting, where you and your team review your product backlog. During this meeting, your team re-evaluates the priority of items in the backlog,

Auditing is an essential process for businesses of all sizes and industries. It helps organizations achieve their objectives by evaluating and improving risk management, governance, and control processes, enabling the organization's leaders to make informed decisions. However, traditional audit processes can be slow, inflexible, and disconnected from the

Check out my post from the IT Revolution's blog, which includes another sneak peek of my upcoming book, Beyond Agile Auditing! What is Auditing with Agility? - IT RevolutionThis post has been adapted from the Introduction to Beyond Agile Auditing: Three Practices to Revolutionize Your Internal Auditing Practices

Check out my post from the IT Revolution's blog, which includes another sneak peek of my upcoming book, Beyond Agile Auditing! Looking Beyond Agile Auditing - IT RevolutionThis post has been adapted from the Introduction to Beyond Agile Auditing: Three Practices to Revolutionize Your Internal Auditing Practices by

May 2023 is going to be a month for the history books! Not only does the month start out strong with Star Wars Day (May the fourth be with you) and end with the release of my book, Beyond Agile Auditing: Three Core Components to Revolutionize your Internal Audit Practices,

Check out my post from the IT Revolution's blog, which includes another sneak peek of my upcoming book, Beyond Agile Auditing! Is Agile Auditing Enough? - IT RevolutionThis post has been adapted from the Introduction to Beyond Agile Auditing: Three Practices to Revolutionize Your Internal Auditing Practices by

I'm often asked about the difference between Agile Auditing and Auditing with Agility. Both terms reference some sort of agility and auditing, so they've got to be the same thing, right? Not so fast. Although the difference in wording is minor, the difference in practice and

Last month, I had the pleasure of recording a podcast episode as a guest on The Audit Podcast. The episode is now available for you to enjoy. Trent Russell, the podcast's host, and I talked about my upcoming book (Beyond Agile Auditing), the difference between Agile Auditing and

Check out my post from the IT Revolution's blog, which includes another sneak peek of my upcoming book, Beyond Agile Auditing! Challenges with Traditional Internal Audit - IT RevolutionThis post has been adapted from the Introduction to Beyond Agile Auditing: Three Practices to Revolutionize Your Internal Auditing Practices

Recently, I had the honor of being a guest on The Audit Podcast, speaking about agility and other innovation opportunities in internal audit. If you haven't already, you need to check out this podcast. Its host, Trent Russel, interviews thought leaders throughout the audit profession, and listeners get

Check out my post from the IT Revolution's blog, which includes a sneak peek at the introduction to my upcoming book, Beyond Agile Auditing! Beyond Agile Auditing: An Introduction - IT RevolutionThis post has been adapted from the Introduction to Beyond Agile Auditing: Three Practices to Revolutionize Your

For the past two years, our summer vacation spot has been Gettysburg, PA. My son loves history. During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic (he was in Kindergarten at that time) he watched the Gettysburg movie on repeat after finishing his schoolwork each day. Most of my work calls

The final summer hockey tournament for us this year was in Niagara Falls, NY. In addition to a lot of games and time spent in ice rinks, I got to spend a lot of time with my family. My sister and brother-in-law drove from Pennsylvania to meet us and watch

Earlier this week I received a question at work about ChatGPT. This morning, my LinkedIn feed is filled with buzz about ChatGPT. So what exactly is ChatGPT and what is all the buzz about? Chat GPT is a chatbot system by OpenAI. It is a language model that interacts with

After a great weekend in Detroit, MI in May, my family and I enjoyed a few weeks without travel. My son finished out the school year and the Ohio weather finally started warming up. I had settled into a good routine of writing every day. In early June, we found

... Annual audit planning season! Well, for some organizations it is. It's the time of year where audit organizations build out the list of areas they're going to audit throughout the next year and present it to the audit committee for approval. Maybe this worked well in

The first in-person DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES) since 2018 was held last month in Las Vegas. I was fortunate enough to not only attend this grand event, but also to speak at it... on the main stage... in front of over 1,000 technology professionals... as the only practicing auditor.

Last month, I attended my first DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES) in person (in Las Vegas)! For the past three years, I've been fortunate to present and attend DOES virtually. While the virtual summits are a crazy convenient way to learn from experts in the field of technology and