December 14 / January 15

Report Date
January 2015

Report compiled by Sheila Fraser (IS Apps Programme Manager)

Section One: Programme Commentary, RAG and Resources Update

Commentary

The programme has been renamed to USG Portfolio Projects following the recent change of SASG to University Secretary's Group (USG).

This programme overall is GREEN as the projects are expected to complete within the year.

For DAS008 the ThankQ to IDM connector still has 1 remaining issue to be resolved, which ThankQ are expected to provide a fix for shortly. The Events Booking removal of functionality is now in TEST, and is expected to be tested and deploy to LIVE this month. As expected more effort was spent in December and January resolving the issues and making the Events Booking changes; re-testing is expected in February to confirm the ThankQ to IDM interface is fully functional before deploying to LIVE.

Resources

RAG & Forward Look

 Section Two: Projects Not Started

Project Info

Project Managers Commentary

Dev & Alumni - Fundraising CRM business case and options appraisal 14/15

Discretionary (Funded)

Planning June 2015

Delivery June/July 2015

RAG Status

GREEN

Plan

Development & Alumni will lead on the project, the IS Applications involvement is expected to be limited mainly to development resources in relation to estimation for any integration work that may be required. This is currently expected to be around 5d.

02-Feb-15 Following discussion with the Project Sponsor the business are not yet in a position where they need support from IS Applications in relation to the estimates for the Fundraising CRM Business Case and Options Appraisal. This is now likely to be in a further 3-4 months, so the 5d effort currently expected is now likely to be needed in June/July. There is a low risk that the relevant resources will not be available in the timescales needed, due to this being a prime time of year for holidays Risk2.

Project start date: 01-Jun-15 (was 02-Feb-15).

Dependencies

Development & Alumni starting the business case. Potential overlap with other CRM projects: HSS004 CRM for HSS Options Appraisal and New University-wide CRM.

 

Section Three: Projects in Progress

Project InfoProject Managers Commentary

DAS008 - Decommission Alumni Live Database

Category: Compliance (Funded)

Milestones

03-Feb-2015Acceptance Sign-OffAccept
18-Feb-2015Events Booking ASORAccept
24-Feb-2015Events Booking Deploy to LIVEDeliver
04-Mar-2015New ThankQ > IDM Connection: Deploy to LIVEDeliver
11-Mar-2015New ThankQ > IDM Connection: DSORDeliver
11-Mar-2015Events Booking DSORDeliver
19-Mar-2015Complete Decomission of ALUMLIVE InstanceDeliver
26-Mar-2015ClosureClose

RAG Status

GREEN

Report for January 2015 by David Watters

Achievements this Period

  • Further UAT checks completed successfully by Applications Management and Development & Alumni 
  • Changes to Events Booking feed deployed into TEST

Issues

  • One outstanding issue in UAT of IDM connector remains - change to be made by ThankQ then retested

Next Steps

  • Test and implement changes for feed to Events Booking and deploy modifications to LIVE
  • Complete testing of IDM connector and deploy changes to LIVE
  • Decommission AlumLive
  • Project closure

 

Section Four: Closed or Withdrawn Projects

Project InfoProject Managers Commentary
No projects closed yet this year. 

 

Documentation

Not available.