23 Copyright © 2019, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. Chapter 2 DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5424-0.ch002 ABSTRACT The purpose of the study reported in the chapter is to conduct agile audit comprehensively to inculcate agile culture in the organizations. A survey was conducted among 25 automotive component manufactur- ing organizations located in Tamil Nadu, India. The audit system consists of 149 agile indices grouped among fve clusters. The focus of agile audit was to examine whether an organization had adopted agile principles and to construe the phase of agile journey the organization had reached. The audit also specifcally gauges whether an organization has really implemented agile principles and the relative position of an organizations compared with other organizations. INTRODUCTION Global firms and industries are focusing to vary their manufacturing practices from mass production to customized production with respect to niche needs of their customers’ which can be achieved by practic- ing Agile Manufacturing (AM) system. AM enables the organizations to cater to the dynamic demand of the customers. AM principles enable modern firms to prosper in a highly competitive environment thereby quickly reacting to dynamic demands of the customers. The implementation of agile principles is a journey through which the organizations become a justifiable agile enterprise. In this context, the conduct of agile audit enables organizations to justify whether agile principles have been adopted by the Auditing for Evaluating the Degree of Agile Practices Implementation Aravind Raj Sakthivel Vellore Institute of Technology, India Jayakrishna Kandasamy Vellore Institute of Technology, India Vimal KEK Vellore Institute of Technology, India