September 2014

Report Date
September 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Section Four: Closed or Withdrawn Projects 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 programme for 14/15 continues to deliver improvements to the IS infrastructure, including two large projects to retire old infrastructure and another to implement major enhancements to monitor the perforamance of the current infratructure.

Projects have started as planned so far.

There are a number of actions from the INF104 for the programme to progress. These are listed in a dedicated page. https://www.projects.ed.ac.uk/programmepage/30193

 

 

 

 

Section Two: Projects Not Started  

Project InfoProgramme Manager's Commentary
Annual upgrades of development tools (JIRA, Bamboo, etc)    

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 as required:

JIRA

JIRA Agile

Bamboo

ASTA

We will look to upgrade to latest stable and supported versions of the products above. This will not review new functionality and only concentrate on software upgrades.

 

Current feedback is that

There will be no ASTA Upgrade this year

The JIRA upgrades are not required until April.

Bamboo Upgrade still unknown - once we have this we can confirm planning dates and any budget changes,

Automated Server BuildsThis project is to take forward the recommendations of the current 13/14 project to produce a proof of concept. This project will provide the necessary production infrastructures required to deploy new environments and will produce a list of environments that can be managed under the service. The project would also produce recommendations for future projects and how to incorporate new services into the automated build system.

 

Section Three: Projects in Progress

 

Project InfoProject Managers Commentary
INF105 (AP45-053)

Decommission Obsolete Infrastructure

Category: Core Funding

 

Milestones

Target dateTitleStage
17-Oct-2014End of PlanningPlan
27-May-2016DeliveryDeliver
01-Jul-2016ClosureClose

 

 

RAG Status

GREEN

Report by David Watters for September 2014

Achievements in Last Period

  • Project website set up
  • Initial meetings with Development Technology and Production Management to discuss what needs to be included in project
  • Work started on Project Brief

Issues

  • Planning sign-off moved because of difficulties in getting metting arranged (due to leave & training)

Next Period

  • Project brief to be submitted to WIS

 

INF106 (AP45-032)

New Application Tier Replacement

Category: Core Funding

 

Milestones

Target dateTitle
20-Oct-2014Build Review
05-Nov-2014Acceptance Review
14-Nov-2014Delivery
28-Nov-2014Deployment Sign Off
05-Dec-2014Closure

RAG Status

GREEN

Report by Adam Wadee for September 2014

 

Achievements in Last Period

  • The Project Brief and plan have been approved.
  • TAD reviewed and approved during Design Sign off meeting.
  • Dev Tech have been allocated to the build tasks which will start on 8th October.

 

Issues

  • None

 

Next Steps

  • Complete build phase tasks and migrate candidate application on Dev environment.
  • Build stage review.
  • Start building Test infrastructure.

 

 

INF107 (AP45-067)

Environment Monitoring System

Category: Core Funding

 

Milestones

 

10-Oct-2014Confirm Site Visits with other Institutions
17-Oct-2014Prepare Questions and Model Answers
31-Oct-2014Visit Two Institutions and write up outcomes
28-Nov-2014Visit Another Two Institutions and write up outcomes
12-Dec-2014Recommendation after Visits to Institutions
30-Jan-2015Accepted Solution
06-Feb-2015Closure

RAG Status

GREEN

Report by Maurice Franceschi for September 2014

 

Achievements in Last Period

  • Project Brief approved
  • Approach to analysis approved

Issues

  • no issues
  • Two Amber risks - last reviewed end of September

 

Next Steps

  • Capture feedback from Sheffiled Hallam
  • Set up two visits for October  

Milestones

 

Section Four: Closed or Withdrawn Projects

 

Project InfoProject Managers Commentary
No projects closed