January 2017

INF116 ASTA Upgrade 15/16

C

Milestones

RAG Status 

GREEN

Report by Nikki Stuart for January 2017

Achievements:

• Software on TEST and LIVE reviewed and old versions removed
• Tech Man reviewed revised TAD/Operational doc and confirmed no further handover required
• Deployment sign off agreed

Issues:

• None

Next Steps:

• Closure

RAG Commentary

Project status has been set to GREEN as the project is now progressing to closure as planned. 

INF119 (AP56-047)

Service Resilience Capability

Category: Discretionary

Milestones (TBC)

RAG Status / RAG change during last month

RED

Report by Karen Stirling for January 2017

Achievements in Last Period

• Meeting held with Dev Tech resource to provide estimation of effort for SRM Activity - overall 25 days effort in total
• Project plan updated for SRM Activity and resource requests updated on ASTA

Issues

• Update from ITI regarding SRM issue - they are currently in the process of testing out some diagnostic steps that the vendor has them working through. They should know more towards end of January.
• Dev Tech resource request not assigned as Resource Manager indicated that another possible solution has been discussed with Project Sponsor and ITI
• Project Sponsor advised that the discussion is around a stretched cluster, this is quite a different solution and much more resilient. Timescales are to potentially buy and setup a stretched cluster over the next 6 to 12 months. Project Sponsor will raise at next ITI / Apps meeting and review with Head of Development Services to not progress SRM work.

• Agreement with project sponsor to continue with database failover work for WIKI

• Proposed milestone dates to be reviewed with project team and Service Manager for WIKI

Next Steps

• Plan Wiki failover activity for Dev Environment and agree Dev Tech resource

• Request resource and VM Build

RAG Commentary

The project status is RED due to possible change to scope and progress on the project, proposed milestones need to be reviewed and agreed.

INF120

Disaster Recovery for Priority Services

Category: Discretionary

Milestones

RAG Status / RAG change during last month

GREEN

Report by Karen Stirling for January 2017

Achievements in Last Period

• Access to SharePoint Site given to Production Management Team Leads In Application Management and Technology Management
• Structure for Technical Architecture Documentation created, ready for latest version of TADs to be uploaded to SharePoint
• Agreed with Project Sponsor that updates to Draft Disaster Recovery Plan to be completed out with the project to allow project to close

Issues

• Estimated that there will be circa. 15 days unspent resource effort returned to the INF Programme on project closure as per agreement with Programme Manager and Project Sponsor, a PICCL has been raised ready for submitting for approval on project closure.

Next Steps

• Update Deployment Checklist template to include changes to storage of TAD on projects website
• Agree completion report and close project

RAG Commentary

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 January 2017  

Achievements in Last Period

• Sign off achieved for News DEV environment
• TEST environment complete and data migrated. All issues in TEST have been resolved.
• Production Management currently performing testing on News applications. HRMI, SPACEMART, TELSMI, LYNDAMI all passed ok. Need results from ADMISMI, ORGMI, STUDMI, EFINARCH 
• Agreement made that GEN migration will commence in April through to July.

Issues and Risks

• UNIDESKMI testing has uncovered a problem in running the extract, but noted that it is not 12c related as did not work in 11c. 

• Cost is RED as the project costs are likely to exceed 20% of the original budget. This is a prediction on where we are now with the NEWS migration, and what's left to complete. Estimation meeting is on 10th Feb for GEN and Programme Manager and Sponsor will be made aware of the budget required. 

Next Steps

• GEN re-estimation (meeting on Friday 10th Feb)
• Sign off NEWS integration and UAT.
• Schedule in a go live date for NEWS.
• Resource for GEN migration from April, and re-plan the milestones after the estimation meeting.

RAG Commentary

• During the previous project review meetings, it's been noted that we have used more time in migrating News than was originally estimated, and this has affected the remaining budget for migrating GEN applications. Currently used 71 days for NEWS out of 118 to migrate both applications, it is highly likely that project will require an increase that will be greater than 20% of the original budget. Programme manager and project sponsor will be informed of the extra increase required after the estimation meeting.

INF122

16 - 17 Infrastructure Rationalisation

Category: Compliance

Milestones

RAG Status / RAG change during last month

GREEN

Report by David Watters for January 2017

Achievements in Last Period

• More mopping up of 'orphaned' packages/software

Issues and Risks

• None reported

​Next Steps

• Update wiki pages
• Conduct forward look for next round of decommissions

RAG Commentary

• The project status is GREEN

INF123

16-17 Provisioning of Python environment

Compliance

Milestones

RAG Status

AMBER

Report by Chris Orrell for January 2016

Achievements in Last Period

• Iteration 1 relating to Edgel Innovation project API126 has started, is working to plan and is scheduled to complete 22 February.
• Iteration 2 has been estimated and is scheduled to start 1 May 2017, developer resources have been booked, production resources for IDM have been requested. This work will cover; Python documentation, Django Starter and migration of the IDM dashboard.
• Deliverables relating to containerisation have been estimated for both developer and Dev Tech time.

Issues and Risks

• As an agile project the Foundation State was not completed by 13 January and a PICCL was approved to move this to 10 February. A stakeholder meeting has been scheduled for this date.
• Discussions regarding containerisation not having been performed by ITI continue. The Project Sponsor has directed the project to focus effort on non-containerisation tasks, which has been done. The Product Owner is reviewing the resource estimation for these items to consider options.
• A developer for circa 20 days budget has yet to be confirmed.
• Note: Deliverable D2.3 is dependent upon D2.2. These had been prioritised as ‘Must’ and ‘Should’ respectively and so at a Programme Manager / Product Owner meeting 30 January it was agreed D2.3 to be corrected to be prioritised ‘Should’.

​Next Steps

• A stakeholder meeting has been scheduled for 10 February to review and sign-off Foundation Stage and plan.
• Complete iteration 1.
• Confirm approach to address resourcing / containerisation issues. At which time the Programme Manager request to bring forward the delivery and closure dates for the project away from the year end will be considered.

RAG Commentary

• Applying agile principles, given a minimum viable product set for the user stories (scope) selected by the Product Owner will be delivered within the budget this year all of the above items are green. However, to convey a more holistic picture time, cost and scope are all rated amber because: Resources have yet to be identified within the time scale for the project, questions relate to the containerisation (can it be delivered this year and is more budget required if it is in scope).

INF113 (AP45-067)

System Monitoring Pilot

INF111 (AP56-006)

New SQL Server Database Tier Replacement

INF118

JIRA upagrade 2016