Audit of NARA's Electronic Records Archives (ERA) 2.0 System
Report Information
Recommendations
We noted that in OIG Audit Report No. 17-AUD-15, a suggestion was made to “modify NARA's SDLC methodology to align it better for agile projects” that has not been addressed.
In addition to resolving this issue, we recommend NARA’s Information...
We recommend NARA’s Information Services institute a process to complete an annual review and update of the SDLC methodology.
We recommend NARA’s Information Services, for ERA 2.0 and future system development projects, require the development and maintenance of a program management plan which describes how these subprojects are expected to reach a targeted steady state for...
We recommend NARA’s Information Services enhance policy or procedures which outline documentation requirements and records retention for delivery and acceptance of contract deliverables by the COR and project team/stage gate reviewers within tailoring...
We recommend NARA’s Information Services, for ERA 2.0 and future system development projects, require the development of a program baseline budget that encompasses costs and schedule, and the measurement of performance against this budget. In addition,...
We recommend NARA’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer finalize Interim Guidance 400-5, Capitalization Policy for NARA Assets on capitalization of costs for Software Development Projects and enhance to address the scenario where programming and...