What is IS Audit/PMO?
IS audit and PMO, told as a story about an outside checker watching several books head toward publication at once.
Three books are all running late at once.One editor can't track all three books' schedules alone.
The author, watching only their own book, misses the full schedule.When the writer and the printer watch only their own part, nobody watches the whole schedule.
Audit/PMO is someone who checks every book from the outside.Audit/PMO watches schedule, quality, and risk together and warns before a book runs late.
This checklist boils what audit looks at down to four things: schedule, quality, risk, and reporting.Audit doesn't write for the author — it only checks. PMO runs the same checks across many books at once.
Audit doesn't rescue a late book by itself.Audit/PMO checks and coordinates — it doesn't do the development itself.
IS Audit/PMO = a role outside the development team that checks and manages projects, flagging schedule, quality, and risk issues before they become real problems.
IS audit is a system under Korea's E-Government Act: a third party independent of both client and contractor reviews how an information system is built and run, and drives improvements. Public projects are usually checked at the requirements, design, and closing stages, with a results report going to the client and the contractor. Government bodies and public institutions must get an audit for a build project whose budget (excluding plain hardware and software purchases) is KRW 500 million or more; systems that serve the public or are shared by several agencies qualify at smaller budgets too, though under KRW 100 million they drop out if the audit is judged not worth its cost (Enforcement Decree of the E-Government Act, Art. 71). A PMO (Project Management Office) manages projects under standardized criteria; it can sit inside an organization, or a public project can hand it to an outside specialist under the same Act. Once that is done, public-facing or shared projects budgeted from KRW 100 million to under 500 million, and build projects shorter than five months, need no audit. Audit leans toward diagnosis; PMO leans toward operational support.
When grown-ups say it
- IS Audit
- An independent check from the outside. Reports straight to the client.
- Project Management Office
- The office that oversees many projects. Manages them against one shared standard.
- ISP/ISMP
- The stage of planning the publishing roadmap itself. Before audit — deciding what to build at all. → the one who maps the publishing roadmap
- WBS
- The prep checklist for a show or a book. A similar tool exists in another field too. → the checklist in the PPE·IT Mgmt field
- QA/QC
- Preventing and finding flaws, like a proofreader. Audit adds schedule and risk on top of quality.
- Configuration Management
- The shelf where manuscripts are kept. One of the things audit checks. → the shelf that protects the manuscript
- SLA
- The promise made to the audience. Covered in depth in another field (IT Mgmt). → the ticket that guarantees the show
- Function Point
- The ruler for measuring software size. A common measure of a project's size. → the ruler that measures functions, not pages