Report for February 2019

Report Date
February 2019

Section One: Commentary, RAG and Resources Update

Programme Commentary

In this reporting period work has stalled on the active projects. Due to key personnel changes within Development Services assigned resources were moved on to higher priority projects.  This temporary loss of resources has resulted in slow down on project progress across the two EdWeb projects in flight. Development resources will be available from next month to pick up and progress these projects. To avoid a similar situation in the foreseeable future, Development Services have recruited an additional Drupal/PHP developed and will also bring in an additonal short term Drupal development resource.  

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

16-Jan-19 Closure

RAG

AMBER

 

 

Report by Emma McNab for February 2019

Achievements in Last Period

  • Draft Closure Report

Issues

  • Due to availability of PM the closure report has been delayed. This has now been drafted and closure is expected in early March. 

Next Steps 

  • Closure

UWP022 EdWeb: GPDR Follow Up Work

Compliance

Milestones

WP2: Cookies and Webforms - Acceptance review 29-Mar-2019
WP2: Cookies and Webforms - Delivery 11-Apr-2019
WP3: Content archive and deletion - Build Review 19-Apr-2019
WP3: Content archive and deletion - Acceptance Review 03-May-2019
WP3: Content archive and deletion - Delivery 17-May-2019
Deployment Review 24-May-2019
Closure Review 07-Jun-2019

 

RAG

AMBER

Report by Tim Gray for February 2019

 

Achievements in Last Period

  • WP1 - Post LIVE fixes on LIVE completed
  • WP1 - Deployment review signed off
  • WP2 - UAT started on some requirements

Issues

  • Key development resources reassigned to FIN119. Milestones replanned
  • WP3: DB work is dependant on other project INF143 completing key infrastructure work

Next Steps

  • WP2 - Complete UAT 
  • WP2 - Continue with remaining build
  • WP3 - Start investigation work

 

 

 

UWP023 EdWeb Development

Discretionary

Milestones

Milestone Due Date
Build Review 26-Mar-2019
Acceptance Review 16-Apr-2019
Delivery 30-Apr-2019
Close 21-May-2019

RAG

GREEN

Report by Chris Copner for February 2019

Achievements in Last Period

  • Minimal progress in this reporting period due to resourcing conflict (see Change 4 below)
  • The requirements and relative priorities from Roslin are in the Product Backlog - JIRA project UWP023a .
  • Estimates for the first 3 items in the Product Backlog have been completed
  • Initial quick wins identified: UWP023-1 and UWP023-2
  • Test data has been received from Roslin (around 800 UUNs) - all 800 UUNs have been loaded into Staging - initial testing of this test data has been successful. 

Issues

Next steps

  • Load testing of the change to staff list size
  • Build review (scheduled 26/3/19)
  • Acceptance review (scheduled 16/4/19)
  • Delivery (scheduled 30/4/19)

 

EdWeb and EdGEL - Powering collaborative development

Discretionary

Milestones

on going

RAG

GREEN

Report by Bruce Darby for January/February 2019

Completed actions

  • Web publishing workshop complete (10 January 2019)
    • 30 people attended
    • Good collaborative material delivered
  • EdWEb steering group met 13 November
    • Have now met with CAHSS and CAM representatives to prioritise work in EdWeb
      • Creating backlog of work and continuing to discuss funding
      • Workshop planned to collaborative build 'Landing page' requirements (8 Feb)
    • Next meeting 7 February 2019

Ongoing actions

  • EdWEb steering group scheduled to meet 7 February 2019
  • Representing University at Edinburgh Drupal events (attendance and presentations).
    • Drupal Camp Scotland preparations have now started.
  • 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

UWP017 Drupal 8 Implementation Planning

Compliance

Report by Tim Gray

This project was submitted for closure on 11/01/2019 (WIS Notes 11/01/19)

Please see the Completion Report for further information

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 monthly meeting on 14th March 2019

Project Action / Notes Responsibility Status
Deployment Schedule 2h meeting to map out and discuss deployment comms. The output should be an overview of all comms actions, responsibilities and appoint a gatekeeper.  TG Done
DrupalCamp Scotland Code sprint on 24th May 2019. Colleagues in Dev Services to attend and possibly Mentor. AR to speak to Bill Lee regarding training budget, if not budget is available time can be coded against the programme code.  AR also to speak to Billy Wardrop about other activities to assist in preparation. AR Open

 

Documentation

Not available.