Reduce waste, increase customer satisfaction, and respond quickly to changing environments by learning to audit and manage life cycle processes successfully. This survival guide provides a wealth of practical tools and control techniques designed to help auditors successfully manage life cycle processes. This practical and much-needed survival guide presents clear, concise, and critical guidance for conducting a systems audit. The authors present guidance for investigating single stages of the development process, including the design, construction, evaluation, and installation stages. They also address the broader impact of systems design as a process.