Agile Project Management, Assurance and Auditing

Wright Christopher :

Chris Wright is a qualified accountant and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) with over 30 years’ experience providing financial and IT advisory and risk management services. He worked for 16 years at KPMG, where he managed a number of IT due diligence reviews and was head of information risk training in the UK. He has also worked in a wide range of industry sectors including oil and gas, small and medium enterprises, public sector, aviation and travel.

A qualified accountant, Certified Information Systems Auditor^®, and Certified ScrumMaster, Chris has more than 30 years’ experience providing financial and IT advisory and risk management services. He worked for 16 years at a Big 4 accounting firm, where he managed a number of major information security audit and risk assignments, including many project risk and business control reviews. He was head of information risk training in the UK and ran training courses overseas, including in India and Iceland. He has worked in a wide range of industry sectors, including oil and gas, the public sector and aviation and travel.

For the past 14 years, Chris has been an independent consultant specialising in financial, SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley), and operational controls for major enterprise resource planning implementations at oil and gas enterprises. He has seen a significant change from traditional to Agile project management. He has developed techniques and tools to provide effective controls and governance frameworks within these revised approaches.

Chris is now semi-retired but is still active as an author, book reviewer, trainer, and international speaker.