Assignment Scenario

After presenting the 2018 budget, the Federal Government allocated funds and requested to Environment and Climate Change Canada ECCC to guarantee that the Species at Risk Act is enforced. The minister of environment does not have a system that manages the Recovery Strategies and Action Plans for the species at risk in Canada. Today the documents are manually created and published.

ECCC has hired you to execute a project; elicit and document requirements; perform system analysis and design; and create a test plan and test cases.

Project Scope

Recovery of Endangered, Threatened and Extirpated Species (Sections 37 to 55) of SARA. These sections of the law detail the process and rules which Environment Canada must follow to recover the species identified at any level of risk.

In a nutshell, Environment and Climate Change Canada ECCC must follow 4 major steps when it comes to Species at Risk:

1. A Committee of Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) assess the level of risk of species that are believed being at risk (We will be covering this step together along the course)

2. Species considered at risk are listed to the Schedule 1 as defined by the law

3. Recovery strategies and action plan documents have to be created for the listed species and published to the Public Registry (This is the scope of your project)

4. Species and their habitats must be protected based on the recovery strategies

Regarding the Sections 37 to 55, some considerations of the scope of your project include:

• ECCC needs a document management system which Recovery strategies and action plans can be created, tracked and published to the Public registry

• Competent Ministers are the different Government of Canada departments that are responsible for a species. They are stakeholders and users of the system. These 3 are as follows:

  • Environment and Climate Change Canada ECCC: Responsible for all terrestrial species

  • Department of Fisheries and Oceans DFO: Responsible for all aquatic species

  • Parks Canada: Responsible for species located within any National Park

• Provincial governments, indigenous groups and private land owners where species are located are also contributors of the documents

• A recovery strategy and an action plan are technical documents and the document management system tracks:

  • The documents lifecycle: From creation to publishing final version to the public registry

  • Information to support document creation, such as: Contact lists, land information where species are located, species information and threats (covered during step 1 of the process along our course)

Project Tasks:

WBS (developed on Visual Paradigm)

Gantt chart (suggested tool: excel)