Report for October 2018

Report Date
October 2018

Section One: Commentary, RAG and Resources Update

Programme Commentary

Great progress has been made on the PHP work this month. The DEV environment has been signed off. With the build and configuration now being completed in Puppet, build of the remaining environments will be very efficient. 

The uncertainty around Drupal8/9 remains, the Drupal Implementation Planning project did not close this month but should close in the next reporting period.

A new in year funded project has just been approved, UWP023 will develop some features for EdWeb as well as delivering requirements gathering and estimation for possible further development.

RAG Status and Forward Look

Resources

Section Two: Projects Not Started

Project Programme Comment
This year's only project is now in flight  

Section Three: Projects in Progress

 

Project Info

Project Managers Commentary

UWP016-Implementation of University Search Engine

Compliance

Milestones

27-Nov-2018 api-student-email Go Live
11-Dec-2018 Project Completion Acceptance signed off
21-Dec-2018 Closure

RAG

AMBER

 

 

Report by Emma McNab for October 2018

Achievements in Last Period

  • Progress of final "Must Have" JIRAs including:
    • API development and Go Live for student email
    • Best Bets
    • Improved Results

Issues

  • Milestones have slipped due to issues outlined in JIRAS and impact of previous resource availability issues.  Remedial actions have been put in place and go live is expected in early December.

Next Steps 

  • Final Release to "Live"
  • Close

 

UWP017 Drupal 8 Implementation Planning

Compliance

Milestones

Closure 31-Oct-2018

 

RAG

GREEN

Report by Tim Gray for October 2018

Achievements in Last Period

  • Workshop write up and work packages sign off

Issues

  • Further work is being held off until the follow-on project is clarified
  • Closure report draft delayed due to the project manager's availability

Next Steps

  • Close project

EdWeb: GPDR Follow Up Work

Compliance

Milestones

WP1: PHP Upgrade - DEV Review 26-Oct-2018
WP1: PHP Upgrade - TEST Review 09-Nov-2018
WP1: PHP Upgrade - STAGING Review 23-Nov-2018
WP1: PHP Upgrade - LIVE Delivery 29-Nov-2018
WP1: PHP Upgrade - LIVE Review 06-Dec-2018
WP2: Cookies and Webforms - Build Review 18-Jan-2019
WP2: Cookies and Webforms - Acceptance review 01-Feb-2019
WP2: Cookies and Webforms - Delivery 07-Feb-2019
WP3: Content archive and deletion - Build Review 22-Feb-2019
WP3: Content archive and deletion - Acceptance Review 08-Mar-2019
WP3: Content archive and deletion - Delivery 14-Mar-2019
Deployment Review 05-Apr-2019
Closure Review 12-Apr-2019

 

RAG

GREEN

Report by Tim Gray for October 2018

Achievements in Last Period

  • Project planning completed
  • Development resources secured to support the current project plan
  • WP1 - DEV environment with new PHP built
  • WP1 - Testing on DEV started
  • WP2 - Requirements defined

Issues

  • WP1 - DEV set up and testing has taken slightly longer than planned. 

Next Steps

  • WP1 - Complete testing on DEV
  • WP1 - Build TEST and STAGING and LIVE environments
  • WP1 - Complete UAT on TEST and STAGING

EdWeb and EdGEL - Powering collaborative development

Discretionary

Milestones

on going

RAG

GREEN

Report by Bruce Darby for October 2018

Completed actions

  • Web publishing workshop planned (10 January 2019) - invites sent out to representatives across the University
  • Representing University at Edinburgh Drupal events (attendance and IS Apps developer presenting on Web Components Thursday 8 Nov 2018)

Ongoing actions

  • EdWEb steering group scheduled to meet 17 October 2018
  • D8 prep workshop follow on tasks assigned to teams/individuals and work to continue
  • EdGEL work packages defined and assigned to teams
  • Prep for next D8 contribution day started - collaboration with Dundee University (Monday 10 December)
  • Mapping of development process against wider developer groups, e.g. LTW DLAM developers contributing to EdWeb issue resolution.
  • Continue having transparent communication between the task force members, having responsibility to share with other stakeholders when relevant.
  • 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.

Planned actions

  • Disseminate the long-term University Website vision to key stakeholders.
  • Revisit roles & responsibilities in view of creating web service team(s).
  • Future meeting planning.
  • Schedule regular meetings of the EdWeb/EdGEL Task Force.

Section Four: Closed or Withdrawn Projects

 

Project Info Project Managers Commentary

UWP021 Implement GPDR Compliance Requirements

Compliance

 

Report by Tim Gray

This project was closed on 07/09/18  (WIS Notes 07/09/18)

Please see the Completion Report for further information

 

 

Section Five: Actions/Notes from previous monthly meeting

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Documentation

Not available.