Integrated assurance is one of those things like risk, quality and benefits that only get noticed when things go wrong, when they are missing or when they are poorly executed.

Treating them separately in order to examine them has inadvertently allowed some people to treat them as optional extras. They are not. They answer the questions: Is it being done properly? What needs to be done to fix it?

Integrated assurance allows all stakeholders a view on what is happening

and allows them the possibility of contributing to a successful outcome.

Whether they want to contribute, or see the need to do so, is cultural and that is another story.

The Assurance Specific Interest Group (SIG), under Roy Millard’s guidance, has produced a comprehensive encapsulation of the type of framework you need to have in place in order to make integrated assurance work for you.