Report for July 2018
- Report Date
- July 2018
Achievements this period
Good progress was achieved in terms of the technical deliverables of the the project. The search widget was designed and built and is capable of being incorporated onto any of the universities web pages. This proof concept (POC) is capable of being further developed and implemented as a minimum viable product (MVP) when the underlying data is of suitable quality.
There are technical issues with getting the right data in the right format from the Funnelback collection. Rectifying this problem will delay the the delivery of the application and the impact of this means that it will not be possible to deliver the project to the agreed plan. The Funnelback issues are being supported by the vendor. At the same time, the data quality of staff profiles held within Pure are inconsistent and some of the key data is missing. This means that data being delivered to the search results page is not at the level that could enable the application to be deployed in production. Both these issues prevent the search application from going live at this time. Risks and issues are raised to cover these problems.
Notwithstanding this, development work is ongoing with Funnelback by the LTW team and Student Recruitment are continuing to drive data and standards development beyond the end of the project as both of theae areas are of strategic interest to the teams. Aditionally, further funding is being sought b Student Recruitment, through a number of channels, to complete any remaining search result page development.
Student Recruitment are also driving forward with standards guidance and policies to improve the quality of staff profiles to enhance the supervisor search journey and ultimately the data quality.
Issues
- None
Next steps
As this is a core funded project it is not possible to move funding into the new academic year the project will be closed.
Milestones
Target Date |
Previous Date | Title | Stage | Complete |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31-Aug-2017 | 30-Jun-2017 | End of Planning | Plan | Yes |
| 05-Feb-2018 | No date available | Unsuspend project and Kick off the development work | Execute | No |
| 11-May-2018 | 23-Mar-2018 | End of Planning (re-plan following suspension) | Plan | Yes |
| 25-May-2018 | No date available | System Design - Research PURE API | Design | Yes |
| 19-Jun-2018 | No date available | Build Complete | Build | Yes |
| 03-Jul-2018 | No date available | Integration Complete | Integrate | No |
| 18-Jul-2018 | No date available | Acceptance Complete | Accept | No |
| 26-Jul-2018 | No date available | Deployment | Deliver | No |
| 14-Aug-2018 | No date available | Project Closure | Close | No |
| External Milestones | ||||
| 21-Dec-2018 | 21-Dec-2017 | Guidance policy for use of "Willingness to take Ph.D. students" and "Ph.D. research projects available" | ||
| 21-Dec-2018 | 11-May-2017 | Guidance policy for use and tagging of keywords to support PGR search |