Project Team and Senior Supplier happy that Protoype is good to go i.e. upgrade of DEV first week of January.
One outstanding action is for team to review the Implemenation Plan with Gordon, and cofnirm it is up to date, before he then uses it for the upgrade (QA of the imp plan). Meeting scheduled for 7th Jan. Once OKayed, PM will submit sign-off to WIS.
Contributors
Role | Who | Department | Date |
Project Sponsor | Rebecca Gaukrodger | SRA | 18/12/13 |
Project Manager | Ruth McCallum | SSP | 18/12/13 |
College Rep - SCE | Wendy Magowan / Tom Ward | SCE | 18/12/13 |
College Rep - HSS |
Attending:
Mark Lang, Anne Finnan, Morna Findlay
JIRA issues
The remaining JIRA issues were reviewed.
Anne will look at the following issues to see how they can be closed.
https://www.jira.is.ed.ac.uk/jira/browse/FIN091-45
https://www.jira.is.ed.ac.uk/jira/browse/FIN091-54 - this may require up to two day's effort for appman to complete
Contributors
| Role | Organisation | Name | Date Signed Off |
Production Management Coordinator (Owner) |
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Anne Finnan
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Project Manager |
| Dawn Nicholls | |
Business Analyst |
| Dawn Nicholls |
Dave MC was planning to start Patching TEST HR this afternoon, however Heather has warned us that there is a major issue with the SAN fabric and she recommends not changing anything on the infrastructure until she gets the all-clear from ITI (around 4pm today).
So it is likely that the HR TEST patching will start on Wednesday 18th Dec.shinh
TEST patching complete ready for New Year
Attending:
Stuart McFarlane, Keith Brunton, Martin Morrey, Arthur Wilson, Aina Puncule, Alain Forrester, Emilio Perez-Lopez, Richard Good, Ana Heyn, Chris Cord, Morna Findlay
The meeting concentrated on issues which might prevent the acceptance sign-off in January, and hence the live upgrade date of 3/2/14
Themebuilder issues
A meeting to review the draft strategy document was held on 5th December:
Documents can be found at this link.
Work/Task Breakdown
The main focus of the project is the assessment of the current application tier services, leading to recommendations and policies for migrating to new infrastructure. The assessment will involve:
Priority and Funding
This is a priority 2 project and is core funded.
Impact and Dependencies
The annual planning exercise for 14/15 is dependant on this project. The outcomes of the project will inform business areas about the applications needing migrated, thus ensuring that the migrations are planned into programmes of work for 14/15.
Background
The existing corporate applications infrastructure is reaching end of life and exhibits signs of stress running the current business services. Support for this infrastructure is very costly and cost savings will be achieved migrating to an enhanced infrastructure (such as an x86 based infrastructure similar to the new database tier). Support for the physical infrastructure may expire from the hardware supplier. Significant performance improvements will be achieved moving to an enhanced infrastructure.