March 2018

Report Date
March 2018

TEL Programme Report compiled by Colin Watt, (IS Apps Programme Manager) for Programme Owner Anne-Marie Scott

 

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Section Four: Closed or Withdrawn Projects 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

 

Projects in Progress:

 

TEL031 VLE Student Analytics

TEL049 VLE Standards

TEL050 Academic Blogging Service

TEL051 Annual Moodle Upgrade (17/18)

TEL052 QMP Upgrade

TEL053 Learn Annual Upgrade

 

Forward Look and RAG

Resource Summary

 

Section Two: Projects Not Started

 

Project Info Project Manager's Commentary
AP78-060 TEL Improvements Project withdrawn

 

 

Section Three: Projects in Progress

 

Project Info Project Manager's Commentary

TEL031

VLE Student Analytics

Discretionary

Milestones

13-Apr-2018

Close

 

RAG Status: GREEN

 

Report by Colin Watt for March 2018

  • Final report is currently with LTW Business Lead for finalisation before circulation to Project Board.
  • Project Board to complete approval of report by email before project closure.

Issues

  • No major issues.
  • Project Closure was pushed back again due to an additional resource conflict (Business Lead, LTW).

Next Steps

  • Complete final report and circulate to Project Board members.
  • Close Project.

TEL049

VLE Standards

Discretionary

Milestones

18-May-2018 Complete Consultation exercise
25-May-2018 Produce New Templates
22-Jun-2018 Agree Terms of Reference for Pilot(s)
13-Jul-2018 Recommendations Report
14-Dec-2018 Complete Pilot(s)
25-Jan-2019 Review Pilot(s) and Agree plan for Rollout
25-Jan-2019 Agree Communications Plan
25-Jan-2019 Agree Support & Training Plan
24-May-2019 Institutional Templates Available
28-Jun-2019 Complete Rollout
30-Aug-2019 Post Rollout Support
13-Sep-2019 Delivery Sign Off Review
27-Sep-2019 Project Closure

RAG Status: GREEN

Report by Colin Watt for March 2018

Achievements in Last Period

  • Consultation process continuing with individual schools.
  • Open consultation sessions with staff and students in progress.
  • Initial Project Board took place 26/03/18. Initial feedback from consultations with stakeholder groups was fed back to the attendees.

Issues

  • No major issues.
  • Potential changes in project scope upcoming.
  • Conflict on PM resource remains due to commitments on MVM509. However, a contract PM has been recruited and they are due to start 16/04/18.

Next Steps

  • Handover to replacement PM.
  • Handover of Service Manager.

 

Project RAG status is currently GREEN due to PM resource conflict being dealt with by recruitment (new PM to start 16/04/18). No escalation required at this time.

TEL050

Academic Blogging Service

Discretionary

Milestones:

29-Jun-2018 Build Complete
27-Jul-2018 Deployment to Live
13-Aug-2018 Deployment Review
27-Aug-2018 Project Closure

RAG Status: GREEN

Report by Sonali Nakhate for March 2018

Achievements in Last Period

  • DPIA completed and signed off by the team and Data Protection Officer. To be reviewed as the project progresses.
  • Use cases produced and external workshops organised.
  • Internal requirements gathering sessions held and BRD in progress.
  • Project Board partially setup.
  • TAD in progress

Issues

  • No major issues.

Next Steps

  • Analysis stage to be completed and BRD signed off.
  • TAD to be signed off and infrastructure build to start.
  • Development to start.
  • First Project Board meeting.
  • Student intern recruitment complete.

TEL051

Annual Moodle Upgrade (17/18)

Compliance

Milestones

Target Datesort descending Title
06-Apr-2018 Deploy to TEST (Integration)
29-Jun-2018 Acceptance
12-Jul-2018 Deploy to LIVE
26-Jul-2018 Deployment Sign Off Review (DSOR)
02-Aug-2018 Close

RAG Status: 

GREEN

Report by Ben Armstrong for March 2018

Achievements in Last Period

  • Completed Moodle DEV application upgrade
  • Installed Moodle plugins in DEV
  • Sign off Build stage
  • Reviewed Moodle DEV upgrade and resolved snagging issues

Issues

  • Two project team members took part in the UCU strike action

Next Steps

  • Complete Moodle TEST application upgrade
  • Install Moodle plugins in TEST
  • Set up user accounts and courses in TEST
  • "Internal UAT" of TEST
  • JIRA TEST snagging support
  • Load testing

TEL052

QMP Upgrade (17/18)

Compliance

Milestones

13-Apr-2018

Statement of works approved

20-Apr-2018

VM environments set up on TEST & LIVE

04-May-2018

Upgrade to v6 in TEST

11-May-2018

Test migration

17-May-2018

Full migration of data and settings into v6

21-May-2018

TEST signoff

18-Jun-2018

UAT complete

28-Jun-2018

Acceptance signoff

28-Jun-2018

Training completed

04-Jul-2018

Delivery

11-Jul-2018

Deploy to Live

27-Jul-2018

Decommissioning of old servers

30-Jul-2018

Delivery review

31-Jul-2018

Close

 

RAG Status: RED

Report by Sue Woodger for March 2018

 

Achievements in Last Period

  • Escalated domain issues to Mark Lang

Issues

  • Delayed milestones
  • Risks updated to RED status
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Next Steps

  • tbc dependent on resolution of Domain issue.

 

Project RAG status is currently RED as the domain issues have not been resolved. Project has been escalated to Mark Lang to provide the technical conduit between ITI and Questionmark to find a resolution.

TEL053

Annual Learn Upgrade (17/18)

Compliance

Milestones

13-Apr-2018 Build
18-Jun-2018 Acceptance
03-Jul-2018 Deploy to Live
17-Jul-2018 Delivery review
24-Jul-2018 Close

 

RAG Status: AMBER

Report by Sue Woodger for March 2018

 

Achievements in Last Period

  • Devtech resource assigned and working on Dev build.

Issues

  • Delay to Dev build due to Devtech resourcing; this has been escalated.
  • No major issues.

Next Steps

  • Config file to be checked by Nik / Chris to ensure no repeat of issue with previous upgrade when it was wiped

 

Current Project RAG status is AMBER (time) due to delays on Dev build. Escalated to Devtech line management for resolution.

 

Section Four: Closed or Withdrawn Projects

 

Project Info Project Managers Commentary

TEL045

Annual Moodle Upgrade

Closure Approved 25/08/17

TEL043

Learn Upgrade

Closure approved 18/08/17

TEL048

Learn Database Migration to Oracle 12

Withdrawal approved 23/02/18

AP78-060

TEL Improvements

Withdrawal approved 09/03/18

 

 

 

 

 

 

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