Overview

Background

IS Applications Division has built up reliance on a number of key products over the years to assist in project and service delivery.  Annual upgrades will be undertaken in order to ensure that these products remain supported.

This project is focussed on the upgrade of the Bamboo product.

The underlying application stub, CITESTER, which is used to test the Bamboo environment is working for Coldfusion applications will also be upgraded from CF9 to CF11. (The infrastructure supporting the CF9 version of Coldfusion is at end-of-life in July 2016 & will no longer be supported by the supplier so there is a need to migrate this applications to a more recent and supported version of Coldfusion.)

Objectives and Scope

Bamboo will be upgraded on existing Test and Live environments.

The dev, beta, test and live CITESTER CF9 applications will be upgraded to CF11.

Not in Scope

Load testing and Disaster Recovery testing is not in scope. 

It has been agreed to keep the current configuration (non resilient).  A future project may change the server configuration so that it is resilient. 

No new Infrastructure will be introduced as part of this project.

Deliverables

TAD and Operations Document updated [Must Have]

Upgrade of Bamboo [Must Have]

Upgrade of CITESTER dev,beta, test and live environments from CF9 to CF11 [Must Have]

Benefits

We have taken on the above products as part of our core workflow for project (and support) delivery in recent times. As such they are essential to our ability to successfully deliver change within the University. Failure to keep the products up to date and in a supportable position exposes us to the risk of serious issues with the software that may affect their ability to run and operate in our environment. It also avoid costly “big bang” upgrades we have experienced in the past when we have had to put significant resources towards upgrading products.

The upgrade of the CITESTER stub from CF9 to CF11 will allow future Bamboo upgrades to continue to make use of this application stub to verify Bamboo environments.

Success Criteria

The 'must have' deliverables need to be met in order for the project to be a success.  The deliverables will be measured as follows:

• Deliverable 1: Upgrade of Bamboo
  • This will be tested and verified by Software Dev team members who currently use Bamboo for deployments.
• Deliverable 2: CITESTER dev,beta, test and live environments upgraded to CF11
  • This will be tested and verified by Software Dev team members who currently use Bamboo for deployments.