Report for March 2013
- Report Date
- March 2013
Report compiled by Maurice Franceschi (IS Apps Programme Manager) for Jared Taylor (Programme Owner)
Section One: Programme Commentary, RAG and Resources Update
Section Two: Projects Not Started
Section Three: Projects In Progress
Section Four: Closed or Withdrawn Projects
Section One: Programme Commentary, RAG and Resources Update
Priorities for the programme have enhancements for the exam boards now prioritised over port to new infrastructure, as an in-year project.
ECA is likely to start an Additional Portal Enhancements in-year project and, if necessary, the planned My Groups project in order to make full use of the remaining days in the budget for 12/13, as they now have 13/14 budget for carry over.
ECA will confirm the projects they want to plan for 13/14 at next month's meeting.
ECA have also confirmed they are ready to commit effort and budget to a project to move ECA to SMART, if HSS can match funding on a 50/50 basis. This is being pursued.
Actions from programme meeting
Section Two: Projects Not Started
| Project Info | Programme Manager's Commentary |
AP23-033 ECA Portal My Groups ECA Ring-Fenced Milestones TBC
RAG Status AMBER | Plan Other work has risen in priority which probably lead to this proposal being descoped. It wil be reviewed once Infrastructure Project and in context of other enhancements required.
Dependencies None |
Section Three: Projects in Progress
| Project Info | Project Managers Commentary | ||||||||||||||
ECA001 ECA Portal Infrastructure Category: Essential Milestones
RAG Status GREEN | Report by Craig Middlemas for March 2013 Achievements in Last Period
Issues
Next Steps
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ECA006 ECA Exam Board Enhancements Category: Discretionary
Milestones
RAG Status GREEN | Report by Craig Middlemas for March 2013 Achievements in Last Period
Issues
Next Steps
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Section Four: Projects Closed / Withdrawn
| Project Info | Project Managers Commentary |
Actions from January Programme Meeting (21st February)
| Final Clarification for Exam Board Enhancements | Clair to clarify asap to John and Craig | Done |
| Decide on priority between Additional Enhancements and MyGroups | Additional Enhancements is prioritised. However, we may start both projects to ensure we use all the allocation of days in 12/13 | Done |
| ECA to decide who else is to own the programme with Jared | ECA to confirm | |
| Additional Enhancements Scope | Craig to work with ECA on defining these for end of March | |
| 13/14 Planning | Consider other work for next year CAM to confirm asap | |
| SMART | Maurice to work with HSS to see if they will fund a medium size project on a 50% basis |
Actions from October Programme Meeting (5th November)
| There is a significant bug around session ids and opening the portal in more than one tab leadig to data loss on forms | Jared to raise a UniDesk Call Craig wil check on reponse and If too big for a support fix, then add to project | |
| Three Enhancements pending for deployment | Jared to ask Olwyn to check fixes in TEST and confirm to Craigso he can deploy to LIVE | |
| I/F project - no dev resource until January Environments bening built | Craig to plan build and testing to be completed for delivery at end of March to avoid May-June period for ECA | Done |
| Olwen Enhancements Project - get ready up front for developer availability in March - April | Maurice to start up project so we can get a requirements spec agreed by February, with estimated and prioritised requirements, so build can start right after port | Done |
| Further Enhancements project | Jared to start compiling a list of further enhancements
Jared to confirm the scope (Descope) of the MyGroups project so we can estimate effort for that project - and Olwen enhancements - and see what is left to do more in this year. | Done |
| Annual Planning 13/14 | Jared to review list from last year and select one or two - or add new one | Done |
| Strategy | Jared states that a stable environment for medium term of 3-4 years is our aim, even if the Portal stays static in terms of further development. | Done |
Actions from August Programme Meeting (19th Sept)
| ) Craig to pick up Infrastructure project - if not possible Maurice to get another project manager. Right away. | Craig Maurice | Done - Craig is PM |
Jared will work with colleagues on an analysis of the portal content and triage content that is not being updated content that resides on the university website - remove from Portal? Or link from Portal? Content that is best kept in the portal
And where from Website do we link back to portal, and consider a MyED launcher
And ECA to commit to maintianing the portal
I think that if at the end of the exercise ECA could articulate their vision for the portal in the medium term ... more than an VLE, just a VLE, the main resource from where students start ... it would help | Jared ECA | Done |
Craig to organise an estimation meeting with John A. so we can get a rough budget for the enhancements for the board : project to eb set up with delivery date April | Craig | Done |
Need to chunk up the My Groups requirements and focus on the highest priority - List of Groups for example. After 1) and 2) and 3) are done, then whatever budget is left will be prioritised for My Groups. Do we already have this requirements/task breakdown? | Jared | Done |