Report for November 2017

Project Managers Commentary

UWP016-Implementation of University Search Engine

Compliance

Milestones

RAG

GREEN

Report by Emma McNab for November 2017

Achievements in Last Period

• Analysis and Requirement Gathering undertaken
• Draft UX report
• Draft UI Styleguide
• User stories and UAT preparation undertaken

Issues

• No open issues however as noted in last month's update there was a more resource intensive development method for the front end of the system being progressed than originally scoped for.  Additional resource was required from the Software Development Team.  This was managed within project contingencies and a lower levels of required resource elsewhere in IS.

Next Steps 

• QA Completion
• Integration specs developed
• Solutions architecture approved
• UX report signed off
• Updated UI Styleguide

UWP017 Drupal 8 Implementation Planning

Compliance

Milestones

Target Date	Title
11-Jan-2018	Analysis and Design Review
28-Feb-2018	Deliver Implementation Strategy
16-Mar-2018	Closure

RAG

GREEN

Report by Tim Gray for November 2017

Achievements in Last Period

• Requirements workshop with editors completed
• Some progress with the infrastructure
• project sponsor and project manager presented EdWeb and community building at Thunder Day in Hamburg (Thunder Day Video Presentation)

Issues

• Less than expected progress was made with the technical work as the resource in DevTech was double booked

Next Steps 

• Continue with Infrastructure work
• Plan 2018 activity, the project is likely to deliver later than initially expected as Development Resources cannot be secured until March/April

UWP020 EdWeb Events Enhancements

Discretionary

Milestones

Target Date	Title
16-Nov-2017	End of Iteration 1
21-Dec-2017	End of Iteration 2
25-Jan-2018	End of Iteration 3/Acceptance Review
08-Feb-2018	Deployment to LIVE
22-Feb-2018	Deployment Review
08-Mar-2018	Closure Review

RAG

GREEN

Report by Tim Gray for November 2017

Achievements in Last Period

• Iteration 1 completed
• Infrastructure for Aggregator agreed with all stakeholders
• User stories, estimation and planning for iteration 2 completed

Issues

• No issues to report

Next Steps 

• Start and complete iteration 2

Discretionary

Milestones

Target Date	Title
18-Dec-2017	Planning Review

RAG

GREEN

Report by David Gibbons for November 2017

Achievements in Last Period

• Project Started
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Issues

• None

Next Steps 

• Project Brief
• Planning
• Estimations
• Business Analysis

EdWeb and EdGEL - Powering collaborative development

Discretionary

RAG

GREEN

Completed actions

• Created a project (UWP099) to capture all activities.
• Regular meeting of the EdWeb/EdGEL Task Force (18/11/2017).
• Organised initial meeting with the Law School website development team.
  • The School will migrate from Squiz Matrix CMS to Drupal 8.
  • There was interest in using EdGEL as a starting point (with an appetite to extend) for their updated front end delivery. 
• Introduced use of GitLab to record and manage EdWeb release planning. This will allow more transparent communication regarding upcoming EdWeb enhancements. The expectation is to be better prepared in all fronts.

Ongoing actions

• Continue having transparent communication between the task force members, having responsibility to share with other stakeholders when relevant.
• Liaison with Schools and Business Units to promote and facilitate collaboration, improve adoption of EdWeb/EdGEL.
  • Edinburgh Business School.
  • School of Law.
• Planning of collaboration activities, e.g. code sprints.

Planned actions

• Technical reps from the task force to meet with technical reps from the community to provide feedback and guidance on best practices to adopt EdWeb/EdGEL.
• Future meeting planning.

UWP015

EdWeb Collaboration and Feature Development  

Discretionary

Report by Tim Gray

This project was closed on 15/09/17  (WIS Notes 15/09/17)

Please see the Completion Report for further information

UWP014

New University Search Engine: Requirements Gathering and Procurement

Compliance

Report by Emma McNab

This project was closed on 22/09/17  (WIS Notes 22/09/17)

Please see the Completion Report for further information

UWP017

Drupal 8 Implementation Planning

Compliance

Report by David Gibbons

This project was closed on 17/11/17  (WIS Notes 17/11/17)

Please see the Completion Report for further information