- Report Date
- November 2016
IS Applications Infrastructure Programme Report for Programme Owner Stefan Keampf
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Section Two: Projects Not Started Section Three: Projects In Progress Section Four: Closed or Withdrawn Projects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
Overall Programme RAG: GREEN
The contingency has already been applied to a number of 15/16 projects to balance budgets and enable their completion this year. Budget is sufficient for all planned proejcts.
Almost all projects for 16/17 have now started, with just System Monitoring to be rescoped before deciding whether to continue.
Section Two: Projects Not Started
| Project Info |
Programme Manager's Commentary |
| Implement Environment Monitoring Solution |
This is unlikely to proceed, at least as it had been expected. A scoping / gap analysis exercise may be undertaken. |
| Annual Upgrade of Development Tools |
With the unplanned projects from last year using up this budget, we will not upgrade further in 16/17. |
Section Three: Projects in Progress
| Project Info |
Project Manager's Commentary |
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INF116 ASTA Upgrade 15/16
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Milestones
RAG Status
RED
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Report by Nikki Stuart for October 2016
Achievements:
- LIVE upgrade complete
- Users updated client installs
Issues:
- Deployment sign off has been missed due to intermittent unplanned outages. Dev Tech and the supplier are investigating, actions have been taken and the position is being monitored.
Next Steps:
- Deployment sign off
- Closure
Status
Project status has been set to RED as deployment sign off has been missed.
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INF119 (AP56-047)
Service Resilience Capability
Category: Discretionary
Milestones
RAG Status / RAG change during last month
RED
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Report by Karen Stirling for November 2016
Achievements in Last Period
- Meeting held on 8th November with Bruce Darby from UWP team to discuss proof of concept for SRM, agreeing for Development environment to be used
- High level dates proposed to project team for build Dev VM and migration to align with UWP011 project deploying at end of January 2017
Issues
- High level tasks communicated out to project team on 25th November with a request for availability of Dev Tech resource over this period, however to date no response has been provided
- Concerns raised that Dev Tech originally aligned to the project were unable to assist due to commitments on two priority 1 projects which were only recently advised to Project manager and not at the time of resource allocation.
- Project manager also had has limited time available to project due to commitments on a Procurement project
- Also request to ITI for an update on SRM work due to be completed by their Consultants mid November, to date no update provided
- Project milestones to be reviewed and revised removing any milestones no longer relevant
- Review project budget for inclusion of new scope and only one application being tested for database failover
- As no progress has been made during November on any project tasks project manager agreed with programme manager to mark project status as RED and has arranged a meeting scheduled for 13th December with key project team including project sponsor to agree how best to take this project forward
Next Steps
The project status is RED due to lack of activity and progress on the project, resource, failover and SRM tasks, milestones need to be reviewed and agreed.
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INF120
Disaster Recovery for Priority Services
Category: Discretionary
Milestones
RAG Status / RAG change during last month
AMBER
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Report by Karen Stirling for November 2016
Achievements in Last Period
- DR repository has been created
Issues
- Draft Disaster Recovery Plan issued out for review and agreement by project team, however no updates have been forwarded to PM
- Waiting for confirmation from Project Sponsor that TADs can be uploaded onto SharePoint Site - proposing this to OGG on 19th November
- Project milestones to be reviewed and resource effort estimated for final activity on project - budget review for funding to be returned to the INF programme
Next Steps
- Update Sharepoint site with key documentation
- DR plans updated where required
- Review project resource estimates, returning potential unused days back to programme
- Following Major Incident in mid September impacting KB, a template document to be created for information on priority services to be included within project
Status
- The project status is AMBER, revised milestones for remaining activity
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INF121
Migrate Core Databases to Oracle 12c
Category: Compliance
Milestones
RAG Status / RAG change during last month
AMBER
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Report by Chris Konczak for November 2016
Achievements in Last Period
Issues
- ADMISMI, ORGMI and STUDMI has got issues to resolve in DEV after they were migrated. This is currently being worked on, and could be a privilege issue. JIRAs 2 and 3 have been raised.
- Project is AMBER as more time has been taken to fix the issues above in DEV, resulting in milestone moves.
Next Steps
- Fix issues on DEV prior to migrating to TEST
- Milestone dates to be reviewed once the fix is in DEV, but will probably move out by two weeks.
- Migrate data to TEST
- Applications Management to peer test
Status
- The project status is AMBER due to the issues encountered in DEV requiring extra time to fix before moving to TEST.
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INF122
16 - 17 Infrastructure Rationalisation
Category: Compliance
Milestones
RAG Status / RAG change during last month
GREEN
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Report by David Watters for November 2016
Achievements in Last Period
- Produced listings of technology & software to be migrated in 16-17
- Wiki pages to control server decommissions established by Tech Man
- Signed off more outstanding migrations
Issues and Risks
Next Steps
- Pinpoint migrations that will need to be carried out in 16-17
- Update wiki pages
Status
- The project status is GREEN
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INF123
16-17 Provisioning of Python environment
Compliance
Milestones
RAG Status
AMBER
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Report by Adam Wadee for October 2016
Achievements in Last Period
- Planning meeting held with Dev Services, Production Management and Project Services.
- Agreed that the project will focus on two main strands . 1 - Development Capability and 2. Infrastructure.
- It was noted that the Infrastructure strand is heavily dependent on ITI engagement and completion of key infrastructure tasks (expected by the end Dec 2016).
- Dev Services and Production to estimate the infrastructure and development tasks so that planning can complete.
Issues
- Planning phase expected to take longer due to availability of key staff.
- Resources for Development tasks not likely to be available until the new year.
Next Steps
- Complete Planning phase and book resources.
Status
- Amber due to delay completing the planning phase. This is due to key staff not being available to identify and confirm the project deliverables.
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Section Four: Closed or Withdrawn Projects
| Project Info |
Project Managers Commentary |
| INF115 Python Development Platform Implementation |
Closure approved August 2016 |
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INF113 (AP45-067)
System Monitoring Pilot
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Closure Approved 16 September 2016 |
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INF111 (AP56-006)
New SQL Server Database Tier Replacement
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Closure submitted 30 September 2016 |
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INF118
JIRA upagrade 2016
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Closure Approved 30 September 2016 |
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