May 2014

TEL012 (AP34-048)

Moodle Upgrade

Compliance

Milestones

RAG Status

 GREEN

Report by Colin Forrest for May 2014

Achievements in the Last Period

• The update has come out of Dev after all JIRA's cleared and been updated to Test.
• UAT has been scheduled and participants assigned by Service Management.

Issues

• There are currently no issues

Next Steps

• We will perform the UAT and cover any JIRAs from this testing.
• At the end of the month we will be ready for the ASOR.
• Deployment will be at the beginning of July  

TEL011 (AP34-049)

Next Generation Personal Response System (PRS) - Procurement

Compliance  

Milestones   

RAG Status

RED

Report by Maurice Franceschi for May 2013

Achievements in Last Period

• colleges have agreed on an approach
• project un-suspended

Issues

• The colleges have decided that the physical devices supplied will no longer be used, and the university will move to students bringing their own mobile device

Next Steps

• The status of the project as RED  as

• we review the type of procurement - is it still EU, still open?

• review the requirements which will need changed

• review the budget and impact of carry over into next year

• check the availability of the current team members for the project

• prepare position papers to set out the new approach for subsequent acceptance by EUSA and the Colleges

• reset milestones

TEL013

Learn Automated Failover

Milestones

RAG Status

GREEN

Report by Colin Forrest for May 2014

Achievements in Last Period

• The BRD and the TAD have been signed off by the project team.
• Initial scripting for the one way failover has been completed.
• We had our 1st senior team directional meeting between IS Apps and Service Management.  This was very productive and allowed the project to have a smooth approval of the TAD and BRD.

Issues

• The Learn Dev environment is currently being used for the testing of Learn patch SP16.  While this patch is in Dev it delays our work.  One of the features of the SP16 patch will be tested by our project and if the feature works as intended we can maintain our development path. The feature will allow us to build a infrastructure for Learn where the software does not required hard coding to one side of our infrastructure which is a major restriction placed on the current infrastructure by Learn.
• The TEST environment is too small to replicate LIVE.  SM has removed all the WebCT files from Learn TEST to see if we can reduce its size to the amount we can currently be allocated.  We've been allocated 320GB currently for our new infrastructure and Learn is 490GB.  We will eventually require to replicate the intended 2TB LIVE Learn infrastructure, but that will be a hardware purchase and it is hoped that the deletion of WebCT files will bring Test Learn to a size where we can progress with the work while the hardware purchase is made.
• The two above points may cause project delays.

Next Steps

• Get into DEV and test the features of the SP16 patch.
• Compile the scripts and have them reviewed for suitability by a second senior team directional meeting.