Impact
Priority and Funding
- Normal priority
- Sponsor funded
Impact and Dependencies
- Dependency on Sales Agility to provide testable software
- Dependency on Sales Agility to provide training
- Dependency on Sales Agility to provide access to Basecamp (tool to communicate tasks and capture user feedback)
- Dependency on Hope Park to provide client data from existing database for migration
- Dependency on Hope Park to provide resource for user acceptance testing and feedback
Project Risks
|
Risk Description |
Impact - Code and Description |
Probability - Code and Description |
Risk Owner |
Risk Management Approach |
Mitigation Actions |
Contingency Actions |
|
IS Applications colleagues required to spend additional resource/effort in excess of budget |
Medium |
Low |
Fraser Muir |
Retain |
Mitigated by focus on the key IS Applications deliverables for Project Manager and Development Technology, and by Hope Park leading internally on testing activity. |
Additional budget request and/or reduce scope |
|
Project delivery falls behind schedule |
Medium |
Low |
Fraser Muir |
Reduce |
Mitigated by regular communication between University of Edinburgh and Sales Agility, and having a robust and realistic project plan in place |
Increase resource and/or call on contingency days within project timeline |
|
Hope Park colleagues required to spend additional resource/effort in excess of capacity |
High |
Low |
Jo Hilton |
Reduce |
Mitigated by additional resource within Hope Park contributing to testing activity, and making best use of time at key points in the project (e.g. blocking time for attending sprint demonstrations and user acceptance testing) |
Increase Hope Park resource or resource from School of Health in Social Sciences if it meets requirements. |
|
Requirements within scope not delivered within 4 sprints |
High |
Medium |
Sales Agility (supplier) |
Transfer |
Mitigated by Sales Agility delivering items in scope as per agreed requirements in Requirements Document / Contract |
Find another suitable solution agreed by Hope Park. Only for items out of scope would require a consultancy request to capture any new / extra work. The proposed governance will use a change request process and there will be a functional and budgetary sign-off for additional out-of-scope items if required. |
|
Integration with single sign-on for user authentication encounters technical issues or supplier requires additional support for first-time integration |
Medium |
Low |
Mark Lang |
Retain |
Mitigated by previous successful experience within Development Technology in working with external software suppliers, and planning activity |
Locally managed login/password to system, managed by Hope Park System Administrator. |
|
Migration of existing client data to new system encounters difficulties |
Medium |
Low |
Sue Tomkins |
Retain |
Mitigated by clear data mapping and confirmation by Hope Park of specific data fields to be mapped |
Manually entered client data by Hope Park System Administrator. |
