November 2014

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 will also start in April.

This project will now start in April.  

Decommission Obsolete Infrastructure

Category: Core Funding

Milestones

RAG Status

GREEN

Report by David Watters for November 2014

Achievements this Period

• Project brief approved by WIS
• Further meetings with business users to determine scope of catalogue and approach to planning
• Further discussions round TSM work

Issues

• Start of cataloguing task delayed (by a week) because of resourcing availability

Next Steps

• Work to commence on cataloguing obsolete elements in infrastructure
• Review of catalogue by project stakeholders
• Planning of next stages of project to be drafted and agreed with stakeholders

INF106 (AP45-032)

New Application Tier Replacement

Category: Core Funding

Milestones

RAG Status

GREEN

Report by Adam Wadee for November 2014

Achievements in Last Period

• The test environments have been created and candidate applications migrated (Calmac and O365 landing page).
• Applications have been DR tested and load tested successfully.
• Acceptance review meeting held and approval given to progress to Live.
• Live deployment and migrations scheduled for Wednesday 10th December.

Issues

• None

Next Steps

• Live deployment
• Deployment sign off
• Close project

INF107 (AP45-067)

Environment Monitoring System

Category: Core Funding

Milestones

RAG Status

GREEN

Report by Maurice Franceschi for November 2014

Achievements in Last Period

• Complete Questions, Answers and Scenarios for Visits - not achieved. Not all the team have made their contributions yet.
• Visit Sheffield in November - not achieved, but 16th december is confirmed
• Visit Imperial by early December - unlikely - waiting to hear
• Confirm third institution to visit by end of the Year - looking to visit Greenwich at same time as Imperial.

Issues

• Two Amber risks - last reviewed mid-November - no change and still pertinent

Next Steps

• Complete Questions, Answers and Scenarios for Visits
• Visit Sheffield in December
• Visit Imperial by end of January
• Confirm third institution to visit by end of January

INF108 (AP45-034)

Automated Server Builds

Category: Discretionary

Milestones

RAG Status

GREEN

Report by Colin Watt for November 2014

Achievements this period

• Project website set up.
• PM has had initial meetings with Project Sponsor, Business Lead, Senior Supplier, and ITI Unix.
• PM has had a number of follow up meetings with Dev Tech who have already produced some documentation on preffered technical approach and architecture.
• Project Brief created, subject to consensus by stakeholders and estimation for preferred technical approach.

Issues

• 05 Dec was initially set as the date for the project brief, but this did not consider knock-on effect of Annual Planning on staff availability.
• Involvement of ITI Unix is crucial to reaching agreement on the scope of the project and the brief; this was agreed on 11 Nov - but getting input has proved difficult and there has been no engagement with the brief.
• PICCL submitted to WIS w/c 01 Dec for planning sign-off to be moved to 19 Dec (with agreement of Project Sponsor).

Next Steps

• escalate ITI engagement issues with Project Sponsor and Business Lead
• ensure Production Management fully engaged with proposal
• agree project brief and submit to WIS w/c 15 Dec