Public Accounts committee  Thank you for the question. The earned value management technique has been around for years and years. The first requirement is that you need to have a good plan. Based on that plan, you load up with your resources that you need to deliver on that plan. Then the tracking becomes

Public Accounts committee  Right.

Public Accounts committee  That's what this was about. Yes.

Public Accounts committee  In this particular instance, the two agencies funded that work, and the work to be done by CIC was paid for by CIC. The work to be done by CBSA was paid for by CBSA.

Public Accounts committee  Right. Thank you for the question. With regard to those five projects, we mentioned that we've had a project measurement framework since 2012. The project measurement framework did not include an investment management component and benefits realization component. All of those pr

Public Accounts committee  It's a very germane question to my everyday life, so thank you for the question. It is a complex business. I talked about dependencies. I talked about the size of some.... We're talking about half a trillion dollars crossing the border every year and 14 million shipments. The mu

Public Accounts committee  We've mandated that all active projects go back and revisit their business case, their business requirements, and their project plan to make sure that the benefits are clearly identified, measurable, and harvestable.

Public Accounts committee  Sorry, I was not around at the time of the first, but certainly as soon as we were made aware of the need for updating the capital plan, which is a five-year capital plan or investment plan, we did so immediately. This is the second version of the plan we produced after we were m

Public Accounts committee  Yes, 2013.

Public Accounts committee  Well, I'm not sure. I had a hard time hearing, so....

Public Accounts committee  As I mentioned earlier, there are two parts to FOSS. There is the use by our border services officers of GCMS for entering immigration data as they process immigrants as they show up at our ports of entry. That's been operational since last summer. We are tweaking that right now

Public Accounts committee  That is our objective, of course. To make the border more secure, we have to interact with our partners. That means we need another system. However, when we say that, we are not just talking about a system. We are talking about 288 applications and 42 databases. The main challen

Public Accounts committee  The service life cycle management framework is not the same framework that changed names along the way. The project management framework was created to manage the projects once we knew we had a project. The portfolio management framework broadened that to include the investment m

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for the question. That is actually what I was talking about a little earlier when we were discussing enterprise architecture. It enables us to do our town planning, if I may call it that, to ensure not only that the CBSA systems are interconnected—and there are some ch

Public Accounts committee  They just laid the groundwork for doing what you are talking about. I would like to specify something about CIC. The relationship is so close that we have an independent governance system with the associate deputy minister. We meet every two weeks to discuss those issues and way