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6450 - DEVELOPMENT - PROJECTS


Records relating to the development of all ministry information system projects in accordance with information resource management policies.  Includes business area analyses, feasibility studies, application and data requirements, application and data design, test plans, results and analysis, maintenance plans (including computer applications access control), and documentation development such as operations manuals, user manuals, training manuals, source listings of program code, data set names, backup file names (at time of implementation) and quality assurance reports.  Also includes control bulletins.

For approved documentation, see primary 358.
For audits not related to development projects, see primary 975.
For business area analysis not related to development projects, see primary 400.
For change management approvals, see primary 6840.
For committees and commissions, see primaries 200 (general), 201 (cabinet), 202 (ministerial), 204 (inter-ministerial), 205 (international) and 206 (inter-provincial/federal).
For contracts resulting from requests for proposal/information, see primary 1070.
For local application development, see primary 6820.
For maintenance of systems, see primary 6820.
For Treasury Board submissions, see primary 1250.
For Y2K project documentation and test data, see Special Records Schedule 112916.

non-OPR NOTE: Offices will retain non-OPR copies of records for: SO nil DE  

Primary-
Secondary
Records Series   OPR  
PIB/PUR
   A SA FD  
6450-00 Policy and procedures   SO 5y SR  
6450-01 General   CY+2y 5y DE  
6450-20 Projects - individual
(arrange by project name)

SO = when project has been reviewed/audited

NOTE:  For ease of retrieval, all files relating to one project may be arranged together physically, first by project name and then by primary number and secondary number.

NOTE:  Ministries have the option of filing projects in chronological order using secondary -20 and then the project name or, if volume warrants, using the secondaries listed below.  However, ministries must be consistent and use only one method or the other for projects in this primary.
  SO 5y SR  

Primary-
Secondary
Records Series   OPR  
PIB/PUR
   A SA FD  
6450-25 Projects - individual - project management   SO 5y SR  
6450-30 Projects - individual - planning and initiation   SO 5y SR  
6450-35 Projects - individual - requirements definition   SO 5y DE  
6450-40 Projects - individual - design   SO 5y DE  
6450-45 Projects - individual - development   SO 5y DE  
6450-50 Projects - individual - test implementation   SO 5y DE  
6450-55 Projects - individual - implementation   SO 5y DE  
6450-60 Projects - individual - maintenance plans   SO 5y DE  
6450-65 Projects - individual - post implementation audits/reviews   SO 5y SR  
6450-70 Projects - individual - documentation development   SO 5y DE  
6450-80 User documentation

SO = when documentation has been updated or is no longer needed to support a system

NOTE:  Use this secondary to classify all approved/final versions of user documentation such as operations manuals, systems manuals, user manuals and training manuals arising from secondary 6450-70, as well as maintenance plans arising from secondary 6450-60.

  SO nil DE  


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