The Checklist That Passed the Audit
Audit notice: 30 days. Evidence requested: everything.
Two weeks of scrambling. Teams pulling logs. Spreadsheets cross-checking commits. Patch requests hunting for proof that code reviews actually happened. Documentation written in panic mode. Governance questions without answers. A process that lived in people's heads, not in tooling.
Then one team showed their checklist. One list. One enforcement mechanism. Every claim tied to evidence collected automatically.
Audit was over in 2 weeks instead of 6.