Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation

Approaches to comprehensive

project and program auditin the Accounts Chamberof the Russian Federation

Main problems for project implementations

• Incompleteness and inconsistencyof information.

• Irrelevance and lack of coordinationin management decisions.

• Poor resource management.

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Information technology improvements in management and audit

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Structure of this talk

• Methodology:

– comprehensive audit;

– architecture and capabilities evaluation;

– scenario evaluation.

• Tools:

– resource and schedule audit;

– interval-based evaluations.

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METHODOLOGY

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The architecture of comprehensive audit

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Indicators for comprehensive evaluation

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The practice of comprehensive audit

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Some approaches to activity management

• Classic project management.

• Business performance management (BPM).

• Architecture management.

• Capability management.

• Net-centricity.

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The scheme of the methodical and IT infrastructure

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Evaluating architecture

• Coherence of the architecture withthe goals and budgets.

• Interaction of stakeholders.

• Cost of ownership.

• Dynamics of architectural change.

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According to ANSI/IEEE 1471-2000:

Architecture is the fundamental organization of a system embodied in its components*, their relationships to each other and to the

environment, and the principles guiding its design and evolution

* - information, financing, materials, products …..

Using the capabilities approach fora comprehensive evaluation of an information system

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Capability: property of a system, probability that the system will succeed in achieving the goal of its functioning.

The correspondence between required and predicted state sets in the functioning of a system can be represented as the probability of the following binary predicate being true:

1,

дk k

k K

Poss Y Y

, 1, ;kY k K прогнозные значения

, 1, .дkY k K требуемые значения

predicted state set

required state set

Methodical basis for comprehensive scenario evaluation

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TOOLS

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Information technology for assessment of large projects

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Audit of programs and projects (software package)

Interval-based assessment of investment projects

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Estimating capabilities with an interval analysis system

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Capability indicator at a high level

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The capability level requires detailed analysis

Capability indicator at a critically low level

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Conclusion

The application of these methods and tools will allow to formulate recommendations on:

• improving the feasibility of projects and programs,

• minimizing negative consequences of projects,

• reducing risks in project implementations,

• and generally improving efficiency of projects.

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Questions?