Independent Project Oversight Report (IPOR) Rating

Green
- Satisfactory, no corrective action necessary.
Yellow
- Caution, risks/issues exist. There may be a need for corrective action in the near future.
Red
- Escalated for immediate corrective action. There is a significant risk to the health of the project.
Blue
- Not enough data is available to make a determination about the project health.
No Report Available - Indicates that a Report is not available for publishing for the reporting period.

7100-234 California Job Opening Browse System Modernization (CalJOBS)

The Employment Development Department (EDD) Workforce Services Branch (WSB), a department within the Labor and Workforce Development Agency (LWDA), proposes to modernize CalJOBS to make the system more user-friendly for all stakeholders, more customizable to the department’s needs, and include robust reporting features to meet the needs of system users. The modernization effort will enable the system to better facilitate the administration and reporting requirements for state and federal programs.

Project Details

Agency / State Entity	Labor and Workforce Development / Employment Development Department
Total Cost	$53,887,116
Last Approved Start Date	09/08/2025
Last Approved Finish Date	08/31/2028
Criticality Rating	Medium

IPOR Reporting Period	Overall IPOR Rating
09/01/2026 - 09/30/2026	Yellow

Independent Project Oversight Dashboard

Key Questions

Is the project on track to satisfy the customer's business objectives?Yes

Is the project on track to achieve the objectives in the approved timeframe?Yes

Is the project on track to achieve the objectives within the approved budget?Yes

Project Overall Health	Comments
Yellow	• Overall project health is Yellow because the project schedule remains unapproved and Milestone 1 foundational planning deliverables remain overdue. • No approved scope change or confirmed impact to the August 31, 2028, completion date was identified. • Financial performance cannot yet be fully assessed because available actuals extend only through July and exclude material vendor and IT-tool costs.

Project Overall Health

Comments

Yellow

• Overall project health is Yellow because the project schedule remains unapproved and Milestone 1 foundational planning deliverables remain overdue. • No approved scope change or confirmed impact to the August 31, 2028, completion date was identified. • Financial performance cannot yet be fully assessed because available actuals extend only through July and exclude material vendor and IT-tool costs.

Focus Area/Rating	Comments
Governance Green	• Governance remains Green because oversight and decision-making forums remained active, and EDD approved a recovery sequence for delayed deliverables. • Project leadership continued coordinating decisions, resolving comments, and escalating delayed foundational plans. • The final decision on the Online Project Communication (OPC) tool and the associated responsibilities will be documented following GSI’s delivery of tool training to EDD.
Time Management Yellow	• Time Management remains Yellow because the project schedule is unapproved, Milestone 1 deliverables remain overdue, and the December 3 and December 11 recovery dates have not been reconciled. • EDD approved a recovery sequence prioritizing plans needed for requirements activities. • No impact to the August 31, 2028, completion date has been confirmed; critical-path effects remain to be validated.
Cost & Contract Management Green	• The IPO Manager reconciled the approved $53,887,116 million total budget to the final Financial Analysis Worksheet; no approved cost change was identified. • One-time actuals through July were $4.171 million, or 12.4 percent of the approved one-time budget. This is a burn-down measure, not a forecast. • The decision not to proceed with the UX/CX procurement generated project savings; the amount and treatment remain to be formally documented.
Scope Management Blue	• The Scope Management Plan remained under review, so Scope Management is Blue.
Resources Green	• Resources remains Green because no State staffing shortages or planned State resource changes were identified. • State resources continued tracking against EDD's internal project schedule.
Quality Yellow	• Quality remains Yellow because recurring formatting, numbering, content-consistency, and comment-resolution defects continue to cause rework and repeated reviews. • Two plans were approved after the initial submissions were returned for revision, but consistent acceptance has not yet been demonstrated across the remaining plans.
Risk And Issues Green	• Risk and issue management remains Green because records were reviewed and updated during the period, and one issue was closed after its response actions were completed. • Closure documentation should continue to distinguish resolved issues from residual follow-up activities.
Transition Readiness Green	NA
Conditions For Approval Green	NA
Corrective Action Green	NA

Project Approval Documents