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Public Accounts committee Yes. They must identify if there are security requirements, so that responsibility is clearly with the departments. They need to complete a checklist, if they are going to Public Works, to have Public Works do the contracting for them. If they're doing their own contracting they
February 26th, 2008Committee meeting
Ken Cochrane
Public Accounts committee The government security policy lays out the broad elements of security that departments need to follow. The standard goes in and looks specifically at what is required when we're looking at the contracting of resources. It is a much more focused piece of material. It goes deeper
February 26th, 2008Committee meeting
Ken Cochrane
Public Accounts committee Thank you, Mr. Chair, and good morning, committee members. Thank you for the invitation to appear before your committee today to discuss the Auditor General's chapter on safeguarding government information and assets in contracting. In chapter 1 of her 2007 report, the Auditor
February 26th, 2008Committee meeting
Ken Cochrane
Public Accounts committee On the question of smaller versus larger projects, if you look back at the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, a lot of what we were doing was automating very specific functions in organizations, such as pay systems, tax, and some of those more specific functions. As we move into the curr
June 18th, 2007Committee meeting
Ken Cochrane
Public Accounts committee I think that when you look at that comment, one of the challenges we and many organizations outside of government have is with specific specialized skills. As you indicated, just after 2000 there were a lot of people available in the Ottawa marketplace. Many of those people have
June 18th, 2007Committee meeting
Ken Cochrane
Public Accounts committee I think, once again, the government's position is that we need to do much better in the area of business cases. Of course, we do receive business cases with Treasury Board submissions. One could look at them and say they perhaps do not explore all of the alternatives available wi
June 18th, 2007Committee meeting
Ken Cochrane
Public Accounts committee Thank you. When we look at projects overall, one of the things that we have developed and we're in the process of implementing with departments is a methodology called outcomes management. Outcomes management is a process whereby the business owner of the solution that's being d
June 18th, 2007Committee meeting
Ken Cochrane
Public Accounts committee Mr. Poole is really here to answer questions on the secure channel.
June 18th, 2007Committee meeting
Ken Cochrane
Public Accounts committee Those two projects have been, as you know, very successful. There are perhaps some differences between those two projects, which are very targeted. You're talking about the census and “My Account”. They are very targeted, very specific automations of work in a very specific area.
June 18th, 2007Committee meeting
Ken Cochrane
Public Accounts committee Thank you. When you look at the enhanced management framework, it is a series of best practices that have been defined. They were first defined in 1995, as you've outlined, and made available to all departments. In reality, many departments do follow the practices. There are e
June 18th, 2007Committee meeting
Ken Cochrane
Public Accounts committee From our perspective, we would agree that it has been an issue that has been a challenge, and the process that we're—
June 18th, 2007Committee meeting
Ken Cochrane
Public Accounts committee Thank you. The real challenge here, probably, at the end of the day, is the measurement of whether or not departments are following the guidelines, and that's something we are being very focused on through the management accountability framework. So I'll focus on that as a tool
June 18th, 2007Committee meeting
Ken Cochrane
Public Accounts committee Thank you. As you know, government online was part of a bigger initiative by the government called Connecting Canadians, and as we look at that, the secure channel was a clear component piece to enable government online to achieve its outcomes. So, as Mr. Poole indicated in his
June 18th, 2007Committee meeting
Ken Cochrane
Public Accounts committee Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you for the invitation to appear before your committee to discuss the Auditor General's chapter on large information technology projects. I'd like to introduce the government officials joining me today. I have with me Mr. Alexander, who is the deputy
June 18th, 2007Committee meeting
Ken Cochrane