March 2014
- Report Date
- March 2014
Infrastructure Programme Report for Programme Owner David Smyth
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Section Four: Closed or Withdrawn Projects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
The ITS103 project has been re-estimated and awaiting re-planning. Although not confirmed, it is obvious that there is a substantial increase in the project budget that means the prgoramme/project cannot deliver the APPS database in this year, and that it will not be possible to start any new projects in this year's programme. It will be possible to deliver something from the ITS103 project using available programme budget.
There are a number of actions from the INF104 for the programme to be aware of. These are listed in a dedicated page.
https://www.projects.ed.ac.uk/programmepage/30193
Section Two: Projects Not Started
| Project Info | Programme Manager's Commentary |
| AP34-041 Business Data Recovery and Storage Implementation |
https://www.projects.ed.ac.uk/planning/project/140 This proposal will implement the findings of the review of data recovery and storage requirements for IS Applications as part of a wider review by ITI. The review will have outlined the requirements for storage of business data for disaster recovery/backup, archival and replication purposes. The necessary technical infrastructure will have been provisioned during 12/13 period as a result of the review and this proposal will bring the Applications service under the revised process and facilities. Tony Weir will be developing the brief. The work is temporarily on hold due to conflicts with other priority work, but Tony has confirmed that it will happen in first half of 2014, and that it will be a procurement followed by an installation. The IS Apps effort involved for each project needs re-estimated. Currently this is a Small budget proposal. Status of this is now set as RED as there has been no progress from ITI, there is less time to complete the project in the current year, and there is now no budget available due to the increase in the ITS103 budget.
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Section Three: Projects in Progress
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ITS103 (AP34-038) Core Technology Updates. Category : C
Milestones Programme Manager : No dates can be confirmed at this point.
RAG Status RED
| Report completed by Morna Finday for March 2013 No report made by Project manager.
Commentary by Programme Manager The project is marked as RED as the projected budget (still to be confirmed) is now 292 days - 165 days over the last agreed budget. The date to move APPS to LIVE was postponed due to outstanding Acceptance issues but should be set again within the month. The agreed budget has now been totally used up and the project is standing at 5 days overspent actual. However, the programme manager will advocate using some of the unspent 40 days for the Business Data Recovery and Storage Implementation to deliver the NEWS database. Programme Manager has okayed the continuation on ITS103 to deliver NEWS on this basis. The Programme Owner and Programme Manager will meet with PM and team to review the new estimates and then decide on approach :- i) fund the substantial increase and probably project descope to deliver the APPS database in 13/14. ii) suspend the project until 14/15 and use budget when available next year by descoping something from planned programme iii) withdraw the project entirely and revert the Apps database back in TEST and DEV Programme Manager will not authorise further expenditure continuation of the project after NEWS is delivered as things stand. | ||||
INF104 Application Infrastructure Upgrade Project Category: Complience Milestones
RAG Status GREEN | Report completed by Adam Wadee for March 2014 Achievements in Last Period
Issues
Next Steps
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Section Four: Closed or Withdrawn Projects
| Project Info | Project Managers Commentary |
AP34-039 Development Tool Upgrades | Withdrawn on 30/8/13. https://www.projects.ed.ac.uk/planning/project/141 This was due to impact on programme budget from carry over 12/13 projects. However, we hope to be able to bring the project back into the 13/14 programme if budget, priority and new estimates allow.
The Division has built up reliance on a number of key products over the years to assist in project and service delivery. This project would apply relevant upgrades to the following products: JIRA JIRA has fallen a few version behind latest version, so it may be this upgrade is required. Whether a proejct is required remain to be re-assessed.
Greenhopper This is a small task to be done under APP004
Bamboo This is a small task that should be covered by current Support arrangements.
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Implement New Database Tier | Report by David Watters This project was closed on 13th September 2013 Please see the Completion Report for further information.
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ITS101 SAN Migration | Report by Karen Stirling This project was closed on 29th November 2013 Please see the Completion Report for further information. |
ITS095 Upgrade of Oracle SOA Suite | Report by Stevie Conlon The project was closed on the 7th November Please see the Completion Report for further information. |