Canada Education Savings Grant (CESG) - IAB Systems Under Development (SUD) Audit

Canada Education Savings Grant (CESG) - IAB Systems Under
Development (SUD) Audit
(Project no. 420/98, February 5, 1999)

Audits and reviews are ongoing management tools used by HRDC to assess how it can improve the effectiveness of its activities and get better results.

• This memorandum refers to an ongoing audit on the development of a software application for the Canada Education Savings Grant.
• HRDC's Internal Audit Board submitted this memorandum on February 5, 1999 to management after reviewing the first phase of development of the Canada Education Savings Grant Application Development Project.
• The Systems Under Development (SUD) audit identified various best practices used in the application development project related to: staffing of the project team; management structure and accountability; objective setting; and, management practices.
• Project identified the following lessons learned: all key divisions within Systems Branch should be involved early in the project; an appropriate work environment should be established before the project starts; and, the costs of developing an interim solution in parallel with the risk mitigation strategy should be fully investigated.

Management Response

• The memorandum was distributed to a management group much wider than the stakeholders in the Canadian Education Savings Grant project in order to:
  • Disseminate best practices so that they can be applied by Systems in upcoming projects in other departments.
  • Share Lessons Learned with a wider management base.
• IAB will continue to work with the team in developing Phases II and III of the Canada Education Savings Grant application.

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