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Building an ISO 9001 Compliant Risk Management Tool Using JIRA

JIRA standard software provides everything you need to build up a fully-fledged risk management tool

Tom Vogel
8 min readMay 13, 2021
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ISO 9001 used to be a static, heavy norm designed to produce folders full of paper processes that collected dust after the certification audit was over. Not so anymore. With its 2015 update, the ISO 9001:2015 norm became more actionable and practical, with more focus being put on living the processes in daily life rather than on completeness on paper.

With this update, ISO 9001:2015 has become more attractive for startups and SMEs, namely because more and more enterprise customers expect their suppliers to be ISO 9001 certified (read about my experience with procurement departments… I should maybe add their constant quest for ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certifications to this article!).

As the Co-Founder & CEO of a software company, improved risk management was one of the key benefits of our ISO 9001 certification. We created an actionable process to lead our company through the present times of uncertainty.

Coping with risks in a world of uncertainty requires having people, processes, and tools that are up to this task. Having a military background myself, I am regularly hiring military guys, one of…

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Tom Vogel
Tom Vogel

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