- Report Date
- October 2016
IS Applications Infrastructure Programme Report for Programme Owner Stefan Keampf
Section One: Programme Commentary, RAG and Resources Update
Section Two: Projects Not Started
Section Three: Projects In Progress
Section Four: Closed or Withdrawn Projects
Section One: Programme Commentary, RAG and Resources Update
Overall Programme RAG: GREEN
The contingency has already been applied to a number of 15/16 projects to balance budgets and enable their completion this year. Budget is sufficient for all planned proejcts.
Almost all projects for 16/17 have now started, with just System Monitoring to be rescoped before deciding whether to continue.
Section Two: Projects Not Started
| Project Info |
Programme Manager's Commentary |
| Implement Environment Monitoring Solution |
This is unlikely to proceed, at least as it had been expected. A scoping / gap analysis exercise may be undertaken. |
| Annual Upgrade of Development Tools |
With the unplanned projects from last year using up this budget, we will not upgrade further in 16/17. |
Section Three: Projects in Progress
| Project Info |
Project Manager's Commentary |
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INF116 ASTA Upgrade 15/16
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Milestones
RAG Status
GREEN
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Report by Nikki Stuart for October 2016
Achievements in Last Period
- LIVE upgrade dates confirmed
- Resources secured for LIVE uprade
Issues
None
Next Steps
- Issue comms to ASTA users regarding downtime for LIVE upgrade
- complete LIVE upgrade
Status
Project status has been set to GREEN as there are no issues
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INF119 (AP56-047)
Service Resilience Capability
Category: Discretionary
Milestones
RAG Status / RAG change during last month
AMBER
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Report by Karen Stirling for October 2016
Achievements in Last Period
- LTW have agreed for the University Website (EdWeb) to be used for proof of concept activity for SRM
- Initial high level planning for Central Wiki for database failover testing to be reviewedw ith project team and service owner
Issues
- Due to Project Manager on annual leave during October limited activity completed on project
- Project milestones to be reviewed and revised removing any milestones no longer relevant
- Agree scope change to introduce SRM testing - ITI and Consultant activity has been brought forward to 14th Nov, advised that timescales too tight to have Dev VM in place business owner agreement not in place at that time. ITi wi9ll work with Consukltabt and IS Apps testing will be completed at a later time
- Review project budget for inclusion of new scope and only one application being tested for database failover
Next Steps
- Confirm tasks for SRM activity with Business team and agreement environment
- Plan Wiki failover activity for Dev and agree Dev Tech resource
Status
The project status is AMBER due to revising activity plan for database failover / SRM tasks, milestones need to be reviewed and agreed.
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INF120
Disaster Recovery for Priority Services
Category: Discretionary
Milestones
RAG Status / RAG change during last month
GREEN
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Report by Karen Stirling for October 2016
Achievements in Last Period
- Draft Disaster Recovery Plan issued out for review and agreement by project team
Issues
- Due to Project manager's annual leave during October limted activity completed on project
- DR repository has still to be created - waiting for confirmation TADs can be uploaded onto SharePoint Site - Project Sponsor proposing this to OGG, also Service Management resource availability to support repository creation.
- Project milestones to be reviewed and resource effort estimated for final activity on project - budget review for funding to be returned to the INF programme
Next Steps
- Update Sharepoint site with key documentation
- DR plans updated where required
- Review project resource estimates, returning potential unused days back to programme
- Following Major Incident in mid September impacting KB, a template document to be created for information on priority services to be included within project
Status
- The project status is GREEN
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INF121
Migrate Core Databases to Oracle 12c
Category: Compliance
Milestones
RAG Status / RAG change during last month
GREEN
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Report by Chris Konczak for October 2016
Achievements in Last Period
- Pre migration testing for all NewsDev applications completed and wiki page updated
- NewsDev migration has been done
- Application connections for 12c NewsDev currently being done.
Issues
- About a 1 week delay while testing was completed of pre migration applications on NewsDev
- DEV migration delayed by a day due to a clash with patching on the DEV database tier.
- Milestones for Test Environment build could need replanned in November
Next Steps
- Test post migration on DEV
- Sign off build
- NewsTest environment build
- TEST environment migration
- NewsTest integration sign off
Status
- The project status is GREEN
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INF122
16 - 17 Infrastructure Rationalisation
Category: Compliance
Milestones
RAG Status / RAG change during last month
GREEN
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Report by David Watters for October 2016
Achievements in Last Period
- Produced listings of technology & software approaching EOL for other programmes
- 15-16 migrations almost complete
Issues and Risks
- Awaiting update on final 15-16 migrations
Next Steps
- Produce listings of technology & software to be migrated in 16-17
- Sign-off migrations from last year
Status
- The project status is GREEN
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INF123
16-17 Provisioning of Python environment
Compliance
Milestones
RAG Status
AMBER
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Report by Adam Wadee for October 2016
Achievements in Last Period
- Planning meeting held with Dev Services, Production Management and Project Services.
- Agreed that the project will focus on two main strands . 1 - Development Capability and 2. Infrastructure.
- It was noted that the Infrastructure strand is heavily dependent on ITI engagement and completion of key infrastructure tasks (expected by the end Dec 2016).
- Dev Services and Production to estimate the infrastructure and development tasks so that planning can complete.
Issues
- Planning phase expected to take longer due to availability of key staff.
- Resources for Development tasks not likely to be available until the new year.
Next Steps
- Complete Planning phase and book resources.
Status
- Amber due to delay completing the planning phase. This is due to key staff not being available to identify and confirm the project deliverables.
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Section Four: Closed or Withdrawn Projects
| Project Info |
Project Managers Commentary |
| INF115 Python Development Platform Implementation |
Closure approved August 2016 |
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INF113 (AP45-067)
System Monitoring Pilot
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Closure Approved 16 September 2016 |
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INF111 (AP56-006)
New SQL Server Database Tier Replacement
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Closure submitted 30 September 2016 |
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INF118
JIRA upagrade 2016
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Closure Approved 30 September 2016 |
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