UniDesk Programme Report -January 2013
Report compiled by Maurice Franceschi (IS Apps Programme Co-ordinator) for UniDesk Project Board
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Section Four: Closed or Withdrawn Projects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
Programme is in balance and status green.
The Change and Release project has a working process configured in TEST UniDesk, so the final effort now to get sign-off by partners and improvements to the documentation and training material before we launch.
The delay in previous delivery dates for Autumn were reported to the project board early December, and the board set the project team targets for completion of UAT and sign-off off process for late January, and deployment to LIVE by March. As it stands, we expect Edinburgh and Abertay to have completed QA w/c 11th February, but St Andrews are aiming to complete and sign-off Friday 22nd.
The UniDesk Upgrade also proceeding well and to schedule as last reported to the project board - in fact, the timescales for delivery are close to C&R and so we need to assess best approach and confirm milestones given the inter-dependencies projects now have.
13/14 Annual Planning was approved by UniDesk Project Board
CMDB (carry over from 12/13) is confirmed.
However, partners will decide at the next board meeting if SLA Module activiation, and if remaining service delivery, can be progressed too, as per original programme plan. Details on estimates for university resource and TOPdesk consultancy have already been sent onto the project board in advance.
Actions from programme meeting
Section Two: Projects Not Started
| Project Info | Programme Manager's Commentary |
AP23-047 CMDB Implementation Funded Approved funding 12/13 is 73 days (depends on previous projects). Milestones Spring 2013 Planning TBC Winter 2013 Delivery TBC
RAG Status AMBER | Plan The project board met on 31st August to review the proposed programme schedule for 2012/13 and 2013/14. CMDB has been pushed back into Spring 2013, and only if we had the days after the projects to upgrade TOPdesk to v 5 and the Unidesk C&R project are completed.
Dependencies None |
Section Three: Projects in Progress
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ITS081 (AP01-926) Funded Approved funding is 47 days. Milestones (to be reviewed w/c 18th Feb.)
RAG Status RED
| Report by Maurice Franceschi for January 2012 Since the reporting below, St Andrews and Abertay have confirmed 22nd Feb to complete UAT and sign-off of the process, so the project status is back as Green for the project. Milestones for the project wil be updated by the 20th February to reflect when C&R wil be avilable in LIVE. Achievements in Last Period
Issues
The status is now Red and we must resolve the issues above by w/c 18th Feb. Project Board has set end of January to complete UAT and sign-off process so we can configure LIVE environments for the end of February.
Next StepsTimetable for activities available from https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/display/ServManITIL/ITS081+Tasklist+and+Milestone
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SMI002 (AP23-406) Funded Approved funding is 80 days. Milestones
RAG Status GREEN | Report by Maurice Franceschi for January 2013 Achievements in Last Period
Issues
Next Steps
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Section Four: Projects Closed / Withdrawn
| Project Info | Project Managers Commentary |
AP23-017 UniDesk Shared Service Patch Not Funded | Withdrawn. Work has been done under Service. |
Actions from October Programme Meeting (9th November)
| Annual Planning to be approved by Project Board, but we propose CMDB carry over Card Reader, sponsored by Bryan, funding could be core or partners if not Edinburgh specific, small UPortal, sponsored by Bryan, core funding, Edinburgh specific, small | Details sent onto the project board re effort estimate and cosnutlancy estimate from TOPdesk | |
| Maurice and Stefan to meet with projects soon to discuss C&R | Done Need to follow up | |
Actions from September Programme Meeting (5th October)
| Neil Bruce can be C&R Process Manager in UniDesk if Stefan or David cannot take on the role. | Bryan to dicuss with Neil - Maurice to confirm with Stefan and David Resolved - Robert Gormley
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| The current unidesk user group woudl be a good forum to present C&R changes | Stuart to action | |
Actions from August Programme Meeting (14th September)
| Set up meeting to discuss how to promote CABS | Maurice | Done |
| C&R project will not set up CABS | Maurice | Done |
| Get V 5 Upgrade project started asap | Maurice | Done |