Report for March 16

Report Date

March 2016

Achievements

• Iteration 2 materials have been delivered 
• The milestones for Analytics configuration and Deploy analytics were withdrawn as the SME and Lead Editor believed that the current analytics delivered what they required. They did mention that it was difficult to evaluate without student data and they will have better feedback once more data comes through students' use. However any updates would come under future improvements (no development within this project) and will be captured in the closure report.
• Lead editor was able to finally confirm that technical issues were all ironed out and the milestone closed (technical issues milestone)
• Lead editor has confirmed that iteration 3 has started but approach has changed from lectures to topics

Issues

• There were delays to iteration 3 starting as there was no decision on which materials were going into iteration 3
• Although an initial topic 'Carbon in Oceans' has been started there is still no decision on what other topics are to be included in iteration 3.
• Tom Challands is creating the materials for iteration 3 and his contract was expected to finish at the end of April but this has been extended to the end of July and he will be developing iteration 3 materials within this time. This means that the iteration 3 delivery will be delayed which will impact on the closure date. PM has submitted a request for extending the project and will discuss with project sponsor when she returns from leave. However this discussion will opened up to discuss the confidence is realising iteration 3. Until the discussions have taken place and a decision reached milestones have been temporarily moved out within this year without extending timescales.
• Feedback survey has been delayed as author (Amy Woodgate) is waiting on SME’S supplying feedback to update the forms. Milestone has been delayed until 18 April

Next steps

• Feedback on updates to the existing surveys to be sent to Amy so she can update the surveys
• Agreement reached on iteration3

Project is AMBER as current milestones are at risk as current projections from iteration 3 means we will have to extend the project

Milestones