December 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 December 2014

Achievements this Period

• Progress with testing and implementation of TSM

Issues

• Cataloguing task delayed because of resource conflict in Development Technologying availability
• Replanning milestone rescheduled to January

Next Steps

• Work on cataloguing obsolete elements in infrastructure to be completed
• 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: Compliance

Milestones

RAG Status

GREEN

Report by Adam Wadee for December 2014

Achievements in Last Period

• The live deployment and migrations took place as planned on Wednesday 10th December.
• Handover between Dev Tech and Production Management has also been done.
• The remaining tasks for the project are to complete the Deployment Sign Off Review, and close the project.

Issues

• No issues to report, however DSOR and Closure milestones have been changed.

Next Steps

• Deployment sign off
• Close project

INF107 (AP45-067)

Environment Monitoring System

Category: Core Funding

Milestones

RAG Status

GREEN

Report by Maurice Franceschi for December 2014

Achievements in Last Period

• Complete Questions, Answers and Scenarios for Visits - achieved
• Visit Sheffield in December- achieved

Issues

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

Next Steps

• 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 December 2014

Achievements this period

• ITI engagement issues were escalated with Project Sponsor and Business Lead. Production Management were included in a meeting to discuss approach to ensure engagement.
• PM and Senior Supplier met with ITI Unix 12/12/14 and reached agreement on the project approach. The outcome from the meeting was that accommodation has been made available at KB for Tech Man staff to work with dedicated ITI Unix staff on the project 1 day each week - ITI have committed resource to the project from January onwards. All agreed that a suitable candidate project is required - which was factored into the planning.
• Project Brief was completed along with estimates and submitted to WIS 19/12/14.

Issues

• Resource conflict on milestone for selecting candidate project, as Snr Supplier unavailable until w/c 12/1/15.

Next Steps

• Project team building and brainstorming.
• Agreement of candidate project.
• Core team carry out initial setup of environments for initial iteration of configuration.
• Review of plan and estimates.