Report for July 2019

Report Date
July 2019

Section One: Commentary, RAG and Resources Update

Programme Commentary

This month the final work has been completed on the development project. With UAT passed this will be deployed in early August and the project closed. The remaining open project has become RED due to the late delivery of INF143 which has encountered significant technical issues migrating the DEV DB to new database infrastructure (MariaDB). A decision will be made on how to finish UWP022 when the testing on DEV has concluded. 

The UWP Programme will be renamed for year 2019/20 to Web and Portal Services, a new programme website has been set up. From next month this programme page will no longer be maintained.

 

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

Execute WP2 DB Encryption - Acceptance Review 14-Jun-2019 No
Execute WP2 DB Encryption - Delivery 11-Jul-2019 No
Deliver Deployment Review 18-Jul-2019 No
Close Closure Review 26-Jul-2019 No

 

RAG

GREEN

Report by Tim Gray for July 2019

Achievements in Last Period

  • Testing of MariaDB started in late July.

Issues

  • Initial testing of the MariaDB has uncovered significant performance differences between the current stand-alone infrastructure and the standard VM instance. A cross-project team, consisting of Production Management, Infrastructure, DevTech and Project Services will concentrate on analysis and resolving performance issues. 
  • It has now emerged that to avoid considerable license costs, the migration across all environments needs to be completed by October 2019. Given the increased change control period around the start of term and the limited time available to progress through DEV, TEST, STAGING, this is a problem. 
  • The project manager for INF143 PM has now left the organisation, a new PM is in place. 

Next Steps

  • Complete testing on DEV, TEST and STAGING

RAG Commentary: The infrastructure delivery through INF143 has been delayed significantly. A knock on delay in testing DEV and performance issues are not yet resolved. A series of actions have been agreed under INF143.

UWP023 EdWeb Development

Discretionary

Milestones

Milestone Due Date
Delivery 01-Aug-2019
Deployment Review  15-Aug-2019
Close 22-Aug-2019

 

RAG

AMBER

Change 10 - Cost is Amber until approval of change to 18/19 project budget and resolution of 19/20 budget issue

Report by Chris Copner for July 2019

Achievements in Last Period

  • Acceptance Review complete

Issues

  • None in this reporting period

Next steps

  • Deploy the solution to Live
  • Close project

 

 

 

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 16th May 2019

Project Action / Notes Responsibility Status
UWP099 This project will continue to report for the remainder of the year.   BD On-going

Documentation

Not available.