Report for March 2019

Report Date
March 2019

Section One: Commentary, RAG and Resources Update

Programme Commentary

In this reporting period work started again on both EdWeb projects. This work is progressing well with first deployments scheduled for mid-April. CAM have agreed to fund an additional 61 days of effort to develop user stories created from various Requests for Chneg submitted last year. The Search Implementation project has also finally been closed. 

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

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 March 2019

Achievements in Last Period

  • Work restarted after resource issues in February
  • WP2 - UAT completed on Google Tag Manager, this will be deployed with the April release.
  • WP3 - The EdWeb DB will be migrated to Maria DB under INF143. When completed this will allow encryption at rest of all data, therefore, removing the need to extract and store form data in a sperate DB. This project will test the encryption after the DM move.

Issues

  • No issues to report

Next Steps

  • WP2 - Deploy to LIVE
  • WP3 - Plan and conduct testing

 

 

 

 

 

UWP023 EdWeb Development

Discretionary

Milestones

Milestone Due Date
Acceptance Review 18-Jun-2019
Delivery 28-Jun-2019
Close 19-Jul-2019

 

RAG

GREEN

Report by Chris Copner for March 2019

Achievements in Last Period

  • CAM have committed to fund a total of 51 days of work (an additional 10 days will be funded by LTW)
  • The CAM requirements have been estimated as 3 point estimates 
  • The requirements and relative priorities from Roslin and CAM are in the Product Backlog - JIRA project UWP023a .
  • The Roslin change to staff list size has been deployed to live

Issues

  • Change 5 - Change to project scope, milestones and project budget

Next steps

  • Approve Change 5
  • Progress funded CAM requirements

 

EdWeb and EdGEL - Powering collaborative development

Discretionary

Milestones

Please add

RAG

Please add

Report by Bruce Darby for March 2019

Completed actions

  • EdWEb steering group
    • CAM funded work started on 'Landing page' and homepage updates (UWP023-12).

Ongoing actions

  • 1xInternet Web publishing workshops complete (Feb, 2019)
    • Report delivery in progress
  • EdWEb steering group meeting TBC
  • Tech peer group meetings to start again.
  • Representing University at Edinburgh Drupal events (attendance and presentations).
    • Drupal Camp Scotland preparations have now started for 25 May.
    • Contribution day planned for 24 May
  • 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.

 

 

 

 

University Webservices

Discretionary

Milestones

on going

RAG

GREEN

Achievements in Last Period

Issues

  • No issues to report

Next Steps

  • Target Operating model agreed and signed off
  • Budget to be agreed.

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

UWP016-Implementation of University Search Engine

Compliance

Report by Emma McNab

This project was closed on 07/09/18  (WIS Notes 15/03/19)

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 Closed

Documentation

Not available.