July 2016

INF111 (AP56-006)

New SQL Server Database Tier Replacement

Category: Compliance

Milestones

RAG Status/ RAG change during last month

Project status is GREEN

Report by Karen Stirling for July 2016

Achievements in Last Period

• TAD updated with option 3 information and issued out for review with ITI
• Quotes were received by ITI for VMware, VEAAM backup and a single server and then the purchase orders raised. The kit has been delivered and receipted
• Project Completion report drafted ready for review by project sponsor and project team

Issues

• TAD will require to be updated following ITI review as what has been purchased by adding capacity to the virtual hosting environment through the purchase of a single server. The SQL VMs will be added to the existing clusters as normal but they will be pinned to specific hosts within the clusters to reduce the core count of CPUs available to the VMs providing this service so that the SQL licence cost can be restricted.
• Closure milestone was pushed out to end of August to cover Project Sponsor on annual leave for 3 weeks in July and will be unable to sign off project closure

Next Steps

• Closure sign off
• WIS Approval to close

The project current status is GREEN

INF113 (AP45-067)

System Monitoring Pilot

Category: Discretionary

Milestones

RAG Status / RAG change during last month

GREEN  

Report by Colin Watt for for July 2016

Achievements in Last Period

• Recommendations Report drafted.

Issues

• Report not completed for review and feedback due to resource conflict on PM (complications on MVM009, and Annual Leave).  Now expected  w/c 08/08/16 with closure to follow  when agreement reached on report.

Next Steps​

• Distribute recommendations report.
• Project Closure.

The project current status is GREEN

INF115 Python Development Platform Implementation

D

Milestones

RAG Status

Report by Adam Wadee for July 2016

Achievements in Last Period

• At the end of July, Iteration 11 has been completed.
• In total, 38 user stories have been completed (112 story points).
• The Release 1 review meeting has been held and there are some minor actions needing completed before we can sign off Release 1.

Issues

• No issues to report.

Next Steps

• Sign off Release 1.
• Close project.

INF116 ASTA Upgrade 15/16

C

Milestones

RAG Status

GREEN

Report by Nikki Stuart for July 2016

Achievements:

• Test upgrade completed
• TAD and other IS documentation reviewed

Issues:

•  There was a minor issue with the DB conversion undertaken by ASTA. This was passed to the suppliers development team and resolved within a few days. The DB was a copy of the LIVE DB and therefore this will need to be repeated for LIVE but as the solution is now know this can be carried within the previously planned outage. 

Next Steps:

•  Complete UAT
• Discuss and agee LIVE dates with ASTA
• complete LIVE upgrade
• Update the timesheet to https

Status

Project status has been set to GREEN as the project is currently progressing to plan. 

INF118 (AP56-005)

JIRA Upgrade 2016

Category: Compliance

Milestones

RAG Status / RAG change during last month

GREEN

Report by Chris Konczak for July 2016

Achievements in Last Period

• JIRA TEST configuration complete
• Data refreshed from DEV into TEST
• Wiki and JIRA databases seperated out to avoid one application bringing the other down

Issues

•  No Issues

Next Steps

• UAT sign off
• LIVE environment built

The project current status is GREEN.

INF119 (AP56-047)

Service Resilience Capability

Category: Discretionary

Milestones

RAG Status / RAG change during last month

GREEN

Report by Karen Stirling for July 2016

Achievements in Last Period

• Project brief updated and reviewed with Tech Man, Dev Tech and Apps Man presentatives including estimates and dates
• Project brief submitted and approved by WIS to include ITI as a stakeholder

Issues

• Look at other potential candidates such as (WIKI and Learn) that are on dedicated infrastructure not on AppsLive
• Forecasted resource budget in 15/16 of 25 days not fully used therefore may require additional effort in 16/17. This will be re-estimated on completion of first failover application

Next Steps

• Review of Top and Medium Priority Services to be completed for Service resilience e.g full, partial or non
• Plan Events Booking failover activity for Dev

The project status is GREEN

INF120

Disaster Recovery for Priority Services

Category: Discretionary

Milestones

RAG Status / RAG change during last month

GREEN

Report by Karen Stirling for July 2016

Achievements in Last Period

• Analysis activity in progress only a few remaining services to be reviewed for information e.g. Cloud based services and services owned by other areas such Network Shared Drives and Staff Mail
• Dash Board now being updated with key information
• High levels requirements created for repository and commencing discussions with Service Management regarding SharePoint site

Issues

• Review with Head of Production Management services which could potentially be removed as priority services e.g. Exchange Mail & Diary and Electronic Journals

Next Steps

• Agree storage options for a master DR document which can be stored off site
• Confirm what documentation is missing / needs to be created for services

The project status is GREEN

INF121

Migrate Core Databases to Oracle 12c

Category: Compliance

Milestones

RAG Status / RAG change during last month

RED

Report by Chris Konczak for July 2016

Achievements this Period

• Brief completed with estimate

Issues

• Planning milestone needs to be moved as estimated budget cannot be approved.  Project is RED again as a result of this.

Next Steps

• Brief signed off and budget approved
• Book Dev Tech to start in September

INF108 (AP45-034)

Automated Server Builds

INF112 (AP56-007)

Build and Configure new ColdFusion Version [15/16]

INF114: Implementation of EASE Second Challenge

Decommission Obsolete Infrastructure

INF110 (AP56-004)

Install Oracle 12c