Report for October 2017 | Project Management

Report Date: October 2017

Achievements as of end October 2017

Project brief and milestones drafted for review
Student communications sent by EUCLID have been identified
Student communications sent by EUCLID have been reviewed by the Student Systems communications team
Map of student communications started to identify triggers and timing of communication generation

Open issues

Conflicting priorities for project manager have led to delays in the project brief being developed and finalised

Next Steps

Project brief to be signed off by the Project Sponsor
Identify applicant communications generated by EUCLID
Begin identifying owners for each communication
Communications to be extended to include volumes and sensitivity of each communication

Milestones

15-Nov-2017	Project brief approved
29-Nov-2017	Identify automatically generated emails issued through EUCLID
15-Dec-2017	Review and amend the wording in all automatically generated emails
15-Dec-2017	Create communications map and assess emails against a ‘sensitivity/volume of students’ matrix
15-Dec-2017	Determine if system development required to allow communications to be sighed off prior to sending
15-Jan-2018	Develop quality assurance plan for implementation of future communications changes
15-Feb-2018	Identify and decommission communications no longer used
15-Mar-2018	Project closure

Project Status

RAG Status

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RAG Commentary: The planning stage of the project was delayed due to the project manager's workload at the start of term. SMT action not required

Change Status

Activity

Approved budget: 0.0 days

Activity this month: 0.0 days

Activity this year: 0.0 days

Activity to date: 0.0 days

Estimate to complete current year: 0.0 days

Estimate to complete future years: 0.0 days

This article was published on Nov 9, 2017