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20. Compliance

Yvonne Wilson¹   and Abhishek Hingnikar²

(1)

San Francisco, CA, USA

(2)

London, UK

 

“Compliance” is just a subset of “governance” and not the other way around.

—Pearl Zhu, from Digitizing Boardroom (2016)

Mention the word “compliance” to an application development team, and you may get some quizzical looks. What exactly is compliance and why does it matter to application developers? This chapter will provide a brief overview of compliance, why it’s needed, how it benefits application providers, and how to approach it.

What Is Compliance? ...