Report for March 2013

TEL001 (AP23-018)

Pebblepad Upgrade Compliance

Core

Milestones

RAG Status

GREEN

Report by Laura Bell for March 2013

Achievements in Last Period

• Sign off PPBR
• Deprovisioning approach agreed; no further development work
• Budget revised to revised scope - now 34 days

Issues

• The current status is Green.
• Potential risk that, following impact assessment with key users, additional support for transition may be required within USD

Next Steps

• Complete integration testing
• Complete impact assessment with Specialist Users

TEL002 (AP23-037)

Speedwell Database Hosting

MVM College Ring-Fenced

Milestones

RAG Status

AMBER

Report by Maurice Franceschi for March 2013

Achievements in Last Period

• Delivery started

Issues

• The installation of Speedwell has failed on one machine, so deployment not complete. Set status as Amber as we need to restate the compeltion date and closure.

Next Steps

• Complete Deployment to Live

TEL003 (AP23-35)

Extension of SMART to HSS with Enhancements

HSS College Ring-Fenced

Milestones

RAG Status

AMBER

Report by Maurice Franceschi and David Watters forMarch 2013

Achievements in Last Period

1.Phase 1 reporting:

• Build completed.

2. Phase 2 enhancements:

• Pass/Fail: UAT passed. Fixes put in place & awaiting deployment. Further analysis on PGT courses.
• Null Values: build completed and peer testing started. To be completed

Issues

• Phase1: There is a delay on the UAT, due to issues around SMARTMI refresh and Boxi Reports. Need to confirm that testers are still available . Accordingly setting status to Amber as there is a risk we may miss delivery before the Freeze Period.
• Phase 2: Delay to completion of Null Values peer testing because of misunderstanding over student types. Led to further analysis of coursework/class only listings

Next Steps

• Phase 1 reporting:
  • UAT for Boxi Report and SMARTMI
• Phase 2 enhancements:
  • Pass/Fail:Build and review (for PGT courses) , UAT and deployment
  • Null values: Testing and deployment.

TEL004 (AP23-043)

Moodle Upgrade

Compliance

Core

Milestones

RAG Status

GREEN

Report by Maurice Franceschi for March 2013

Due to issues, there has been a slight delay in the testing of Plugins. However, project remains on course.

Achievements in Last Period

• TAD signed off

Issues

• N/A

Next Steps

• Review, deploy and test plugins
• Complete fixing new Theme bugs

TEL005 (AP23-904)

ODL Image Upload for Card Services

Discretionary

Core

Milestones

RAG Status

GREEN

Report by Laura Bell for March 2013

Achievements in Last Period

• PPBR signed off

• Project replanned to enable improvements to MyEd environments to complete

• Budget re-estimated and revised budget approved of 24 days

• MyEd publication and communication strategy agreed

Issues

• The current status is Green

• Potential Risk that the MyEd Test environment refresh (due to complete 5th April) could impact project if delayed

Next Steps

• Sign off PPIR

• Sign off ASOR

• Deploy to Live

TEL006 (AP23-907)

Learn Enhancements

Discretionary

Core  

Milestones

RAG Status

GREEN

Report by Alex Wood for March 2013

Activities completed in this period

• Planning milestone signed off
• BRD written
• Systems design commenced
• Comms plan produced

Issues 

 No issues

Activities to complete in next period

• Complete and sign-off system design
• Commence build

LAT010 (AP12-022)

VLE upgrade to Learn 9.1

Compliance

Milestones 28-09-2012 Closure

Project completed.  

Closure Report

Virtual Classroom Implementation

Very Important

Milestones

Report by Tim Gray for November 2012

Achievements in Last Period

Phase 3:

• Delivery milestone achieved
• Deployment Sign Off milestone achieved

Issues

Next Steps

• Closure

AP12-044

Social Hub Enhancements Funded

AP12-042

Moodle Enhancements Funded

AP23-045 DEI Data Hub- Enhancements

Funded (IS)

Maurice talked to Karen on Monday 8th and has asked for this transfer. Karen to get back.

We will focus on New MyED, given the current on schedule status of the MyED Upgrade Project. The risk of not having a working Old MyED channel to be accepted, with the three daysd Richard has w/c 22nd to be used as fallback if the upgrade is postpoened or backed out.

Programme Owners to confirm the approach and who owns the risk,

Programe owners to decide if project board needs to be informed.

Prgoramme owners of DEI and TEL agreed that the DEI projects should be moved into TEL programme, as DEI will not be funding DEI projects in 2012/13.

Maurice to request expansion of TEL programme with transferred projects, and removal of DEI programme.

Programme Owners/Simon to confirm the Funding for DEI projects.

DEI Pcode effort to be transferred over to TEL programme management.