March 2019 - Programme Meeting
Attendees:
Craig Henderson, Douglas Stewart, Dawn Holmes, Leon Toland
1. March Report
An overview of this month's reports were provided - https://www.projects.ed.ac.uk/programme/fin/commentary/78
Areas highlighted included:
- FIN126 will have a larger budget for 18/19 as it includes 2 phases - a) Making Tax Digital and b) System enhancements to support 18/19 financial compliance needs
- FIN119 and current issues with development and testing. Escalation at a portfolio-level shouldnow occur.
- FIN127 - a review of the budget effort in 18/19 should now occur with the current PM, so that costs to complete can be clarified.
- Impact on wider Programme Budget
2. Budget
An overview of the current budget FIN Programme Budget which is 941 days.
3. Wider Programme Update
- There is currently no further update in relation to the programme for 2018/19. This will be provided as soon as proposals / budgets have been approved.
- Dawn provided further information on the Service Excellence (SE) Finance transformation programme. Further details about the Core System programme timeline should be available after April 15th.
- Action: Leon will escalate current Finance team concerns with the progress of FIN119 development and testing to Emma.
- Action: Leon to also escalate need for ITI group response and support on PCI-DSS requirements with Emma.