April Report

Report Date

April 2016

Achievements in Last Period

• Meeting held with Enterprise Architect, Service Management and project team including Project Sponsor on 7th April to discuss way forward with a number of actions raised:
• Dave Berry has initiated a Change request for Withdrawn Students - this is now with Service Management to take forward the change request, copied to key service owners Karen Osterburg, Alex Carter and Anne Marie Scott. An estimate for development work has been provided by ISG Development Team.
• A workaround script has been suggested from the Grouper User Group. A problem record has been raised and developer resource requested to assess issue (2 days allocated)
• The change to the course code in Grouper is expected to be completed prior to the roll forward in June. Course code key to be defined and Michael Sun has been asked to estimate. We will require Karen Osterburg to sign off development proposal. Geir Granum and Chris McKay have to produce a specification and include impact on TEL025 project. Once details have been gathered this has to be presented back to project sponsor for agreement to take forward.  The specification is to include a description of how the groups will be used within the business processes of setting up courses, submitting assessments, etc. Alex Carter has asked for PM to manage this piece of work alongside the project. As this will need to be completed ahead of TEL025 project deploying to live. Also confirmed that this development will be charged to RDS.
• TEL025 UAT plan has been reviewed by Chris McKay and Stephannie Hay to highlight any area that may have been omitted. Stephannie to request brand new data including: Courses, Students, Course organisers by SSP to allow project to track end to end testing, SSP to provide what kind of timeframe they would need to be able to do this for the project

 Issues

• UAT remains on hold until update on progress have been reviewed and agreed by Project Sponsor
• Review  impacts of delays on project budget to complete project
• Review milestones in light of development work required for course code change

Next Steps

• Commence development work aligned to Course Code fix
• UAT to recommence, complete and sign off Acceptance
• Deployment Checklist
• Preparation for deployment – checklist, service alert etc.
• Deployment to Live

The project status is RED due to the UAT being placed on hold and dependency of course code development work