Closure Review
Project Summary:
Project Review
The project has been completed with all scope delovered within budget. The project sponsor expressed satisfaction with the results and thanked the project team for their contributions.
Objectives
To deliver the agreed enhancements to the university seminar site
Deliverables
JIRA | Description | Priority | Priority Rationale | Achieved |
| SCE008-1 | Lists are scrollable or go to the next page rather than just truncate at 30 entries at the bottom of a page. | 1 | Mandatory
| y |
| SCE008-2 | List of seminars/events includes a "0" for non-alphabetic first characters. | 2 | Mandatory
| y |
| SCE008-3 | Fix full-text search button | 3 | Mandatory
| y |
| SCE008-4 | When using the email notice forwarding feature, the seminar presenters name gets lost and replaced with a N/A. | 4 | Mandatory
| y |
| SCE008-5 | Alphabetical ordering button to the lists | 5 | Mandatory | y |
| SCE008-6 | Browse Talks should have buttons to select past/future/all talks, and sort them by date appropriately. | 6 | Highly Desirable | y |
| SCE008-7 | Administrator can turn on/off browsing of personal lists | 7 | Desireable | y |
Scope
The project team and project sponsor agreed to include the following additional fixes in scope.
SCE008-13 (Cannot change user role)
SCE008-9 (EASE URL handled by Symfony)
SCE008-17 (Fix Bob Fisher's record)
The project team and project sponsor agreed the following fixes/enhancements were not in scope:
SCE008-10 (Display of talks in homepage)
SCE008-16 (Announcement messages)
SCE008-14 (Quotes in titles)
Schedule
The final delivery was not completed till January 13 2016 due to a post-deployment fix which could not be deployed until after the Christmas break, due to annual leave commitments.
Analysis of Resource Usage:
Staff Usage Estimate: 35 days
Staff Usage Actual: 30 days
Staff Usage Variance: -14%
Other Resource Estimate: 1 days
Other Resource Actual: 1 days
Other Resource Variance: 0%
Explanation for variance:
Actual effort below estimate
The developer did not need as much time for familiarisation as expected.
The developer was able to deliver the requirements using less effort than expected.
The deployment effort required of devtech required less effort than expected.
As no difficult issues were encountered during development or testing, the project team did not need to hold many meetings and those that were held were kept short.
The agreed scope of the project was closely adhered to.
Key Learning Points:
Having to work with a very old version of PHP (5.3.3) caused significant problems in the development of the project. The version has been end of life for some time and the LAMP service should support newer versions. Without a new version of PHP any further development would be hindered. We recommend tha if the seminar site was to become a live service the hosting of the service should be reviewed for this reason.
Using JIRA to manage the enhancements worked well.
Outstanding issues:
Follow-up on usage of site
No action is required under this project, but Susan McKeown, programme manager will arrange a meeting with the project sponsor in a few month's time in order to review how the usage of the site is progressing.