Information Technology: HUD Needs to Improve Key Project Management Practices for Its Modernization Efforts.

摘要

HUD relies extensively on IT to carry out its mission of strengthening communities and ensuring affordable housing and has reported that efforts are under way to modernize its aging, duplicative, and poorly integrated systems. Committee report language mandated GAO to evaluate the implementation of project management practices for HUD's IT modernization efforts. The objective was to identify the extent to which the department implemented key project management practices for the FHA Transformation and NGMS modernization efforts. GAO assessed project management artifacts for 9 FHA Transformation and 5 NGMS projects in the areas of project planning (charters, work breakdown structures, and project management plans), requirements management (requirements management plans and traceability matrixes), and acquisition planning (acquisition strategies) against best practices. GAO also interviewed officials.