Report for July 2019

Compliance

Milestones

RAG Status

RED

Report by Adam Wadee for July 2019

Achievements in Last Period

• The live deployment of SOA 12 went ahead on Tuesday 9th July, however it was not successful and had to be rolled back.
• The issue appears to be an internal SOA issue whereby for account updates, it retrieves the existing IDM data, but fails to transform it into the required  XML SOAP packet. New and failed updates run individually succeed, but live running causes failures.
• We have replicated the issues on the Test environment, but have not been able to resolve them.  A call has been raised with Oracle to investigate the issues and provide a fix.

Issues

• Issues as described above.

• Milestones will need to be revised once we have a fix from Oracle. 

• Our next window for the live deployment is in October, after the start of term change freeze finishes.

Next Steps

• Obtain a fix from Oracle to resolve the issues.

• Re-plan the project milestones.

• Deploy to live.

RAG Commentary

The live deployment of SOA 12 went ahead on Tuesday 9th July, however it was not successful and had to be rolled back. We have not been able to resolve the issues encountered during the deployment, so have raised a support call with the SOA vendor Oracle. Our next opportunity for deploying to live will be in October after the start of term change freeze. The delay is not directly impacting on services for students, but is delaying other projects which are dependent on the SOA upgrade. The delay also means that our IDM service continues to run on a version of SOA which is out of support (11G). The issue has been escalated to the Project Sponsor and senior managers in Applications Directorate. We have also raised the issue with Oracle. We expect to have a fix from Oracle by the end of August which will allow us to prepare for a live deployment in October.

COM045 IDM Database Upgrade

Compliance

Milestones

Suspended

RAG Status

AMBER. Project delayed due to COM043 SOA upgrade.

Report by Chris Konczak for July 2019

Achievements in Last Period

• No further progress on project during July due to waiting for the TEST environment to be released from COM043 SOA upgrade project.
• Project suspension agreed by Project Sponsor, Programme Manager and agreed at WIS
• Proposed restart date: 21/10/2019

Issues

• Rollback of the COM043 deployment on 09/07/2019 due to issues with IDM have delayed COM045 proceeding with the TEST upgrade in July. Due to the nature of the issue with COM043 and requiring a suitable deployment window from the business, It is unknown when COM043 will deploy. With the change freeze in September, it has been agreed with Project Sponsor and Programme Manager to suspend COM045 until COM043 can confirm the issues are resolved and a new deployment date is secured 
• Budget needed for COM045 in 2019/20 is now 47 days. This has not been secured / agreed until a review is completed.

Next Steps

• Agree available budget to continue COM045
• Review the position of COM043 in October and agree a project restart or extension to the suspension
• Restart date is 21/10/2019. Submission to WIS required on 18/10/2019 for restart or to continue suspension.

COM047

Annual JIRA Upgrade

Milestones

RAG Status

GREEN

Report by Yiwei Jing  for July 2019

Achievements

• Project brief signed off
• Familiarisation & analysis work undertaken by project team
• Preparations made for upgrade in DEV

Issues

• None

Next steps

• Refresh data from LIVE
• Upgrade in DEV
• Apply upgrade to TEST

COM040 - JIRA Upgrade

Project closed - Closure Report