Design

Ideas about the design of the application

When observing auditors doing their job, some key concepts arise to the mind:

• Reports are the most important thing of their job: it hold the results of their job and it is the "product" they sell
• All the audit departments have a personal way to do their job. This personal way conforms with the standards and best practices, but there is always a customization and internal procedures added to this to customize or to adapt to the particularities of the organization they work in
• For the internal auditors, to keep track of the status of the findings is not an easy task, so many give up doing this and changes it to a general check when doing the next work over the same department or scope. A bad idea because too much time could have passed since that and things may become worse
• Auditors are a moving collective: they can move to do a report in a diferent place, return to his workplace in order to write the report, return again to another branch in order to recover additional information... a web application would be perfect. Having also an offline application would be desirable.

So, when creating this project I have the following ideas in mind:

• Highly customizable environment, in order to allow users to adapt the application to their needs
• Trackable findings: findings must be an identifiable element in the application, and must be possible to add other types of information that justify the follow up of these items
• Reports will have a common look and feel
• Application can be internetized (if such word exists)
• An standalone application would be fine to work offline and then syncrhonize when reaching the office