Report for September 2016

Report Date
September 2016

Report by Muriel Mewissen for Bruce Nelson (Portfolio Owner) 

 

Section One: Programme Commentary, RAG and Resource 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Section Four: Closed or Withdrawn Projects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

 

Commentary:

The CSCE Programme / Portfolio has a budget of 211 days for 2016/17 and starts with two projects ongoing:

SCE010 Athena Swan Reporting Improvements: This project is close to completion with an estimate of 4 days left of workTwelve days had been agreed for in the 16/17 budget. This project is RED due to delay in getting the required configuration applied by the business partner which should get resolved this month.

SCEP02 Virtual Edinburgh PM consultancy and Support: This project provides PM consultancy to the Edinburgh CityScope programme of works and used 7 days of its 50 days allocation in the 16/17 budget. The Innovation project API017 Edinburgh CityScope Foundations constitutes the second phase of this programme and will end in February 2017. The project is actively working on securing funding for the following phases. The project status is GREEN.

Please note that the project RAG status is following the revised guidelines: A one-page summary of the IS RAG status indicators is available on this page.

Of interest:

Two proposals were submitted to the Digital Transformation Fund that, if funded, will be of interest to CSCE: Enterprise APIs and EdWeb Collaborative Development Framework. We also note that a roadmap for deploying Grouper as a centrallu supported servcie is under consideration.

 

Resources to end September 2016

 

Forward Look - September 2016

 

 

Section Two: Projects Not Started

 

Project Info Programme Manager's Commentary

AP67-073 16/17 Ring Fenced Allocation for CSCE

GREEN

A request for a trial of an online assessment application: ExamOnline from Intelligent Assessment Technologies (http://www.intelligentassessment.com/) has been discussed with David Cavanagh. The school of Biology hopes for a trial in November 2016. Support from ISG (LTW & Apps) is thought to run the trial, with view of establishing ExamOnline as a centrally supported serviec if the trial is successful. This would help the school of Biology with providing better assessment and feedback. An area noted for improvement in the NSS, and therefore of strategic importance. 

 

 

Section Three: Projects in Progress

 

Project Info Project Managers Commentary

SCE010 (AP56-925)

Athena Swan Reporting Improvements

 

Category: Discretionary

Milestones

15-Nov-2016 Deployment Sign Off
30-Nov-2016 Closure

 

RAG Status

RED

Report by Susan Duff for September 2016

Achievements:

  • New Absence Types, new Extra Information Types, Universe changes and reports deployed to LIVE
  • Milestones re-planned (see issue below)

Issues:

  • Approval from WIS given 30/9/16 for change to project closure to accomodate key business resource availability for configuration. See change log ref 2. Closed.

Next Steps:

  • Communicate changes to processes and timescales for commencing use of new functionality

 

Red status is due to agreed delay to closure of project being greater than one month

SCEP02:

Virtual Edinburgh PM Consultancy and Support

 

Category: Discretionary

Milestones

RAG Status

GREEN

Report by Morna Findlay for September 2016

Achievements this period:

  • Innovation fund bids secured
  • Cityscope developers seminar held

Issues

  • Additional funding required for full-scale pilot

Next Steps

  • October steering group meeting
  • Prepare PTAS funding bids
  • Revisit "100 projects excercise" with Lesley McAra

 

Section Four: Closed or Withdrawn Projects

 

Project Info Project Managers Commentary

N/A

Projects in the CSCE programme for 16/17 are currently in progress or are yet to start.  

 

 

Programme Info

Documentation

Not available.