Managing Compliance in Sprints

For fast-growing companies, compliance often lags behind business velocity. Audits, deals, and policy updates accumulate while teams juggle engineering priorities. As a result, compliance becomes a reactive burden. The outcome is missed controls, delayed certifications, and deals stalled by audit issues.

This guide presents a sprint-based model for compliance that uses agile principles from engineering and applies them to governance, risk, and compliance (GRC). By breaking compliance into scoped sprints with assigned owners, milestones, and reviews, mid-market teams can align security work with business priorities. They can keep up with audits and develop a program that scales without burning out their staff.