Wikipedia’s definition of compliance describes it as being (mechanical science) as inverse of stiffness (my favorite), than there are words like adherence, measure and regulation. The first reaction is oooopfh with a slight groan. It is a natural reaction. Information tecnology leaders today have to deal with HIPPA, PCI, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), and many others depending on your industry and whether you are a public or privately held company.
So, after the oooopfh, what to do next. Well, let’s look a the first definition listed by first, inverse of stiffness. Compliant, pliable, flexible – hmmm, those almost sound like being agile. Hold there cowboy (oh by the way Go Giants), are you soft in the head thinking that having to achieve compliance makes you agile. When SOX came out, article after article of the impact on technology projects, never mind negative impact on profitability for the company as a whole. Just after the Y2K focus for 2 years, now just a mere 3 years after that IT organizations had to scrape plans for many other key growth/profit driven projects to take on the SOX compliance initiative.
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