Programme Report for April 2018

Report Date
April 2018

Completed by Morna Findlay (IS Apps Programme Manager) for Craig Hennessy (Programme Owner)

DRAFT

Section One: Programme Commentary, RAG and Resources Update 

 

Commentary

The programme manager considers that overall the programme is RED:

  • The programme budget has been increased by 44d to fund the additional effort requird to deliver HRS094 (HESA)
  • The GDPR risk has been realised for eRecruitment: work is urgently required and it is not clear how and whether this can be undertaken in time. HRS096 has been initiated to undertake this work; late timing of starting a project that was not in the plan and lack of clarity on how this will be delivered mean the project delivery is currently RED. 
  • HRS094 - RED - CHANGE: A new budget has been agreed, the additional funding will be resourced from elsewhere in the USG portfolio.

The utilisation rate  for the year is low (53% year to date) due to:

  1. HRS094 HESA work that is being initiated now (102d estimated to complete in this year).
  2. HRS096 GDPR Updates for eRecruitment project initiated with estimate of 40d. Once planning is complete,  it may be that this estimate will increase.

 

Risk - Erecruitment Licencing  An extension to the current contract has been negotiated till December 2018.   HRS will negotiate with Core seeking agreement that the contract can be further extended without the need for an upgrade to SaaS  ( as per Core's new business model) and an agreement is expected to be reached in April.  As a safeguard, a proposal to  plan for an upgrade project has been submitted to annual planning.   However there is a risk that that eRecruitment upgrade may need to be brought forward to start in this year; there is no budget currently available. A decision is expected in April 2018

 

Forward Look for April 2018

 

  

  

 

Resources to end April 2018

 

 

 

 

 Section Two: Projects Not Started

All projects in the HRS Programme are currently in progress.

Section Three: Projects in Progress

Project Info

Project Managers Commentary

HRS094 HESA Staff Return 17/18

Date Milestone
31-May-2018 Initial Build
18-Jun-2018 Initial Acceptance
27-Jul-2018 First Deployment
28-Sep-2018 Submit HESA Return
12-Oct-2018 Commit
09-Nov-2018 Final Submission
07-Dec-2018 Closure

RAG Status

GREEN

Project Report by Anne Mathison for April 2018

Achievements

  • Project Brief completed and approved
  • Completed project plan
  • Skill types required, discussed, agreed and project estimated.
  • Software developer contractor successfully recruited and employed
  • Contractor recruited for the PL/ SQL and APEX work. Contractor started the last week in April
  • Overall priority in Brief has been approved to be set to HIGHER
  • Revised budget has been approved at WIS

Issues

  • No issues

Next Steps

  • Software Developer completes familiarisation of  the HESA website, HESA extract work, APEX requirements and JIRAs
  • Start the HESA extract build work
  • Build work is almost complete
  • Completed work passes through to Test and Live for HR testing

 

GREEN RAG status

   

HRS096 GDPR Updates for eRecruitment

02-Apr-2018 End of Planning

RAG Status

RED

Achievements this Period

  • One team meeting held to discuss scope
  • New project manager (Jamie Thin) took over in April.
  • Chris Orrell has since been appointed as project manager

Issues

Next Steps

  • Complete project brief and plan project

 

 

Section Four: Closed or Withdrawn Projects

Project Info Project Managers Commentary

APEX Tomcat 7 End of Life

Category: Compliance

Report by Morna Findlay

This project was withdrawn on 18-Dec-17.

HRS092 (AP67-034) HESA Staff Return 16/17

Category: Compliance

Report by Anne Mathison

This project was closed on 04-Dec-2017.

Please see the Closure Report for further information.

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