Report for November 2019

Report Date
November 2019

Report for September 2019

Report compiled by Andy Stewart  (IS Apps Programme Manager) for Candice Schmid (Programme Owner)

Section One: Programme Commentary, RAG and Resources Update

During November 

  • Both active projects, whilst progressing have encountered some delays to a combination of other time competing projects and the impact of Industrial action 
  • Initial discussions held regarding annual planning proposals for 2020-21, noting the potential projects for 2020-21
    • Cold Fusion upgrade projects or AIR and Retain (core funded)
    • Continuing development of AIR (sponsor funded - funding to be confirmed) 
    • Continuing development of RETAIN (sponsor funded - funding to be confirmed) 
    • Continuing development of CHPS (sponsor funded - funding to be confirmed) 

 

Forward Look

Resource Position 

 

Section Two: Projects Not Started

 

Project Info Programme Manager's Commentary

 

 

 Section Three: Projects in Progress

 

Project Info Project Managers Commentary

HAS007

Cardinus Upgrade

Category: Discretionary

Milestone

Milestone Due Date
Complete Build 20-Dec-2019
Complete UAT 24-Jan-2020
Deploy to Live 31-Jan-2020
DSOR 14-Feb-2020
Close 21-Feb-2020

 

RAG Status: Amber

 

Report by Andy Stewart for November 2019

Achievements this Period

  • System related documentation 
    • The System Design Specification (SDS) document has been forwarded to the Production team 
    • The Technical Architecture Document (TAD) with the Production team
    • Test strategy has been confirmed regarding testing user access on the Live system 
  • Healthy Working 
    • Discussions have resolved the set up for the new Healthy Working application whereby, having migrated the old Cardinus Risk Assessment and Training data to Healthy Working
      • UoE will create a conversion file to replace the current Staff Id with UUN
      • The previous 2-level Organisational Hierarchy data will be removed and replaced with a 3-level hierarchy relating to levels 4,5 and 6
  • Build
    • The build of the account provisioning file has been completed, incorporating;
      • data extract from IDM and Organisational Hierarchy 
      • automate sftp transfer process
    • The sftp environment has been created on the Development environment 
  • Data Transfer 
    • Work is on-going to investigate the suppliers preferred option of data encryption of PGP
    • Discussions are on-going with Information Security regarding the data transfer 
    • Confirmation to use visitor data has been confirmed by Service Management 

Issues 

  • Due to a combination of holidays and Industrial action, it has not been possible to progress
    • Singe Sign-On
    • Creation of database account to process the extract 
    • PGP encryption
  • There has been a requirement to re-plan the project to accommodate the stated delays, resulting in the previously planned go-live being delayed by 3 weeks to the end of January

Next Steps

  • Build Phase 
    • Complete technical build 
      • Account provisioning 
      • Single Sign-On (SSO)
      • sftp environments on Test and Live 
      • PGP encryption 
  • Data Transfer 
    • Confirm approvals from 
      • Information security 
      • Student Services to use student golden copy data 
  • User Acceptance Testing 
    • Commence User Acceptance testing 

HAS008

eOPAS Upgrade 

Category: Discretionary

Milestone

Milestone Due Date
Sign-Off User Acceptance Testing 10-Jan-2020
Deployment to Live 07-Feb-2020
Sign-Off Deployment Sign-Off Review 21-Feb-2020
Closure 06-Mar-2020

 

RAG Status: Amber 

Report by Andy Stewart for November 2019

Achievements this Period

  • The upgrade to the Test system has been completed 
  • User Acceptance Testing has commenced
    • Initial checks have been completed with no problems reported 
    • HR integration tests have been successfully completed 

Issues 

  • A delay has been experienced in completing the upgrade due to a combination of the following reasons;
    • Technical Lead time restricted due to other project priorities 
    • Unexpected issues encountered during the upgrade process, requiring supplier input on a few occasions 
    • Industrial action 
  • The Mjog sms txt messaging service has not been installed due to delays in confirming the commercials 
  • The Single Sign-On (SSO) for the portal has not been configured due to holidays and Industrial action 
  • Reduced time for testing will result in not completing the UAT according to the original schedule
  • As a result of the delays, the project has been re-planned after discussions with the business team
  • Next Steps

  • Complete UAT on the Test system 
  • Install the Mjog sms txt messaging service 
  • Configure Single Sign-On (SSO) for the portal 

  Section Four: Closed or Withdrawn Projects

 

Project Info Project Managers Commentary

HAS006 COSHH Health Passport System (CHPS) Enhancements 

 The project  was closed in August 2019.

Closure Report 

HAS005 Fire Management System Procurement 

The project was closed on 27/09/19

Closure Report 

Programme Status
Has formal escalation taken place?
No

Programme Info

Documentation