Report for Oct 2019

Report Date
October 2019

 

Programme Commentary

Overall BI/MI Programme is AMBER.

DTI049 - HR Strategic Reporting - has completed four x 3-week agile sprints and Sprint 5 is now in progress 

DTI050 - Finance Strategic reporting - has been started -  planning stalled while focusing on HR Strategic Reporting

Both DTI049 and DTI050 have been set to Higher priority on the IS Applications overall priority scale ( up from 'Normal' to 'Higher') . This is a 3 step priority scale from Normal to Higher to Highest.

 

BI / MI Programme - Key Achievements in Last Period

  • DTI049 Sprint 4 completed - ETL job created to pull funding into HR datamart foundation layer 
  • BI/MI - programme risk review started with risk workshop

 

BI / MI Programme - Top Issues

 

  • Some of the BI team resources had to be assigned to the EST109 Estates Strategic Reporting project - to get that project over the line for start of UAT Phase 2
  • Difficulties agreeing BI/MI scope boundaries with SEP Core Systems, due to their need of a 'Historic Data Store' (HDS) and expectations this would have been delivered by the EDW programme.

...this may utilise the data warehouse, although other options should be investigated and the requirements are not yet understood. Advice from Enterprise Architecture has led to invalid assumptions that this will met through the DT funded BI Team, whereas it will need its own management and resourcing. Had previously agreed this with Core Systems but now needing to clarify that position again.

  • Agreed Business Analyst resource from Core Systems not forthcoming.

...expected a dedicated resource to proactively cover reporting requirements but BAs have had delays in recruitment (expected July) and SEP process is to submit individual work package requests. Current expectation is to not receive much help for the analysis of strategic reporting requirements or data sourcing from existing systems, mitigated as much as possible by an increase in GaSP MI Analyst time seconded to the programme until the end of this year at least. Ideally need to increase Enterprise Architecture (EA) input this year to cover increased data sourcing analysis but EA team has limited spare capacity.

 

BI / MI Programme - Key Next Steps

  • Agree programme brief with stakeholders.
  • Estimate size of each separate datamart project -  HR datamart , Finance and Payroll datamarts and eRecruitment datamart - to feed into overall sprint planning - how many sprints per project
  • Confirm resourcing commitment with IS Production Management ( estimated 0.2 FTE) - who and when and governance for agreeing changes as project goes through the different stages of built & Test
  • Agree scope limitations and expectations with SEP Core Systems programme / REF / Historical data store
  • Programme Risk Review and consolidate related EDW/BI Tools risks.
  • Agree  comms plan with Lynda Hutchison and Programme stakeholders 

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RAG Forward Look to end of Oct 2019

BI MI  RAG status as at end of Oct 2019

 

 

 

Resources to the end of Oct 2019

BI/MI actual spend to end of Oct 2019

 

 

 

Section Two: Projects Not Started 

 

Project Info Programme Manager's Commentary

Project Code / Project Name

Category: Compliance / Discretionary

New projects in the DTI plan for 19/20

 

 

Section Three: Projects in Progress

 

Project Info Project Managers Commentary

DTI049 HR Strategic Reporting

Category: Discretionary

Milestones

 

Stage Milestone Status
Sprint 1 complete 03-Sep 2019 Done
Sprint 2 complete 24-Sep 2019 Done
Sprint 3 complete 15-Oct 2019 Done
Sprint 4 complete 05-Nov 2019 Done
Sprint 5 complete 26-Nov 2019 In Progress
Sprint 6 complete 17-Dec 2019 Scheduled
Alpha release  27-Jan 2020 Provisional estimate

 

RAG Status

AMBER

 

Report by Jamie Thin for Oct 2019

 

Achievements this period

  • End of Planning completed
  • Sprint 4 completed - Tidy up EDW Setup activities,  Finish off Estates UAT re-work ,Continue refining HR model and data
  •  Sprint 5 started - HR - Access layer prototype , Estates UAT re-work
  • Git / Bamboo - scripts completed , ready for deployment to DEV and TEST, once Synch has been done from Source to Staging to Foundation

Issues

  • Project team spent additional effort on EST109 Estates UAT - agreed to progress with this work up to 5 + 15 = 15 days effort to get EST109 deployed to LIVE
  • Need to agree long term solution for managing connections to EDW from BI tools before the HR Datamart can be made available to a larger community of users / testers

Next Steps

  • Full backlog to be collected for the HR datamart
  • Complete Sprint 5
  • Plan Sprint 6 / Alpha release

  

 

DTI050 Finance Strategic Reporting

Category: Discretionary

Milestones

 

Stage Milestone Due Date
Planning End of Planning 22-Nov 2019

 

RAG Status

AMBER

Report by Jamie Thin for Oct 2019

 

Achievements this period

  • limited activity while focus on HR Strategic reporting
  • early discussion on identifying Project Sponsor , Senior User and other key stakeholders

Issues

  • Need to agree Project Sponsor / get Senior User from the University Strategic reporting community - potential capacity issue for key people - as these same people are already fully committed to SEP core systems and Finance Transformation work
  • Planning delayed / End of Planning milestone will move back several weeks 

Next Steps

  • Start Planning
  • Start user engagement and start gathering use stories
  • Set up Agile tools - JIRA Board , start creating Backlog of User stories
  • Agree MVP ( Minimum Viable Product) , and agree priority areas within the large scope of Finance Strategic Reporting

Section Four: Closed or Withdrawn Projects

 

Project Info Project Managers Commentary

Project Code / Project Name

Category: Compliance / Discretionary

**Add**

Report by PM

This project was closed on ....

Please see the Completion Report for further information.

 

 
Programme Status
Has formal escalation taken place?
No