Report for August 2018
- Report Date
- August 2018
Achievements this period
Budget for the new academic year has been secured amounting to 20 days. This is great news and allows the team to continue to develop the minimal viable product (MVP). Technical issues with Funnelback search engine are ongoing and have prevented real progress during August. This was expected as securing time with the vendor had been planned for later in August.
Following a re-plan, a change request was approved by WIS to amend a number of milestones and the revised deployment date moving to 31st October 2018.
Development Services resource have confirmed that in the event that changes are required to the search widget, these could be accommodated following Funnelback work, during September.
Student Recruitment are continuing to drive data and standards development and also driving forward with 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
- Resolve outstanding technical issues with data retrieval from the Funnelback search collection.
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 |
| 31-Oct-2018 | No date available | Deployment | Deliver | No |
| 16-Nov-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 |