Report for March 2016

Report Date
March 2016
 

Report compiled by Adam Wadee, IS Apps Programme Manager for Martin Morrey  (Programme Owner)

 

Section One: Programme Commentary, RAG and Resources Update

Section Two: Projects Not Started

Section Three: Projects In Progress

Section Four: Closed or Withdrawn Projects 

 

Section One: Programme Commentary, RAG and Resources Update

The programme is in reasonable shape as we approach the end of the first quarter of the year.  WEB007 and WEB008 have both encountered delayes, but are scheduled to deliver soon, and WEB009 is now planned.  The final project in the programme (Notifications Service) will has started, however there is pressure to complete this before the end of the financial year.

Overall Programme RAG: AMBER

 

 

 Section Two: Projects Not Started

 

 

Project InfoProject Manager's Commentary
  

 

Section Three: Projects in Progress

 

Project InfoProject Manager's Commentary

WEB007

Notifications Backbone [Year 1]

Discretionary

Milestones (to be confirmed with Project Sponsor)

 
25-Mar-2016Acceptance Sign Off
08-Apr-2016Close

 

 

RAG Status

GREEN

Report by Colin Watt for March 2016

 

Achievements in Last Period

  • Draft UAT plan produced; UAT plan expected to be agreed w/c 29/02/16.

 

Issues

  • currently awaiting UAT, and agreement on revised milestones with Project Sponsor, closure now expected Apr 2016.

 

Next Steps

  • Review Milestones with Project Sponsor.
  • Complete UAT and any necessary rework.
  • Acceptance and closure.

 

The project current status is GREEN as when UAT complete and signed off the project can move into closure.

WEB008

MyEd Enhanced Mobile Interface

Discretionary

Milestones

 
TBCClosureClose

 

 

 

RAG Status

AMBER due to delay in sign off of closure aligned to LEARN issue

Report by Karen Stirling for March 2016

 

Achievements to date

  • Deployment to live completed successfully and signed off for Learn, Email Preview on 3rd March
  • MyTimetable JIRAS were fixed, deployed to test and retested by Timetabling team and signed off ready for second deployment to Live on 22nd March
  • Learn JIRA resolved and retested by Service Team and signed for deployment to Live on 22nd March
  • Project completion report issued and sign off requested

Issues

  • During deployment on 3rd March whilst checking myTimetable, 2 issues were raised aligned to time display which had not been highlighted during UAT. It was requested by the Timetabling team that my timetable should not be published until these were resolved. Also during deployment a small outage occurred on MyEd the project team were unable to pinpoint reason for this.
  • Learn Service team raised a issue regarding access denied error message when links were not accessed straight away on MyEd resulting in timeout problems. this was investigated, fixed and retested by Learn and redeployed to live
  • Review of remaining budget to cover deployment and closure completed and PICCL raised / approved for additional 7 days
  • PICCL raised to extend project closure date due to issued raised following deployment to Live
  • Issues encountered with second deployment to live which resulted in an outage to MyEd, learn deployment completed however during outage the project team agreed to unpublished my Timetable as there is an MyEd infrastructure issue impacting this on live, agreement  sought and gained from Scott Rosie for this action.
  • Learn Service Team have raised a further timeout issue following 45 minute period of inactivity and users receiving an access denied error, developer has investigated and proposed 2 solutions to resolve problem
  • Decision to be made where this issue is to be resolved within WEB008 to allow closure of project or if it is to be change requested into support or WEB009, Business lead in LTW currently on annual leave, Project Manager will discuss with Project Sponor how this issue is to be tackled

Next Steps

  • Plan of action for Learn issue
  • Agree new closure milestone
  • Complete project closure and gain sign off
  • Close project

The project status is AMBER due to delays in project closure and resolution for LEARN timeout issue.

WEB009

Responsive MyEd and EdWeb Integration

Discretionary

Milestones

20-Apr-2016Phase 1: DEV Build ReviewDeliver
02-Jun-2016Phase 1: Integration ReviewIntegrate
30-Jun-2016Phase 1 Acceptance ReviewAccept
06-Jul-2016Phase 2 BETA Build ReviewBuild
14-Jul-2016Phase 1 Deploy to LIVEDeliver
29-Jul-2016Phase 1 Deployment ReviewDeliver
11-Aug-2016Phase 2 DEV Build ReviewBuild
19-Sep-2016Phase 2 Integration ReviewIntegrate
24-Oct-2016Phase 2 Acceptance ReviewAccept
08-Nov-2016Phase 2 DeploymentDeliver
30-Nov-2016Phase 2 Deployment ReviewDeliver
15-Feb-2017Phase 3 Improved alignment between MyEd and EdWebDeliver

RAG Status

GREEN

Report by Tim Gray for March 2015

 

Achievements this period

  • Agreement reached with ITI on infrastructure and build work started
  • TAD work continued
  • Initial comms sent out
  • uPortal upgrade completed

Issues

  • Some delay to starting the Infrastructure build
  • Some overrun on other project work (mainly UWP) has impacted on developer's availability

Next Steps

  • Continue infrastructure build
  • Continue BETA configuration 

WEB010

Notifications Service

Discretionary

Milestones

 

 

RAG Status

Report by Jason Fiddes for March 2015

Achievements this period

  • Project not started
  • No progress or achievements this period
  • Sponsor not available to meet until 18th April

Issues

  • Availability of resources

Next Steps

  • Meeting with Sponsor and senior user on 18th April to discuss project brief and scope.

Section Four: Closed or Withdrawn Projects

 

 

Project InfoProject Managers Commentary

WEB003

Mobile Information Solution With MyEd - Phase 1

Compliance

Report by Maurice Franceschi

The project was closed on the 31st July

Completion Report.

WEB005

Mobile Information Solution With MyEd - Configuration Discretionary

Report by Maurice Franceschi

The project was closed on the 12th December

WEB006

MyEd Continuous Improvement

Report by Maurice Franceschi

The project was closed on the 3rd July.

 

Notes from Programme Meeting

NoteActionStatus

WEB007:

- Paul is available until early October

- We'll combine the analysis and design phases (Richard and Michael to work on this).

- Learn notifications to be used during PoC.

- Next phase of project will start after feedback has been obtained and analysed (likely Jan 2016).

 Complete

WEB008:

- Build phase done, test deployment needed.

- UAT to be planned for Sep.

- Martin will check if Jo and her team can test.

- Adam to review Colin's workload / may need to assign another PM.

 Complete

Responsive MyEd and EdWeb Integration:

- Plan to do R&D while Paul still here.

- Adam to confirm where the time will be recorded.

 Complete

Book.ed

- Info to be passed around meeting attendees.

- Project info

 Complete

 

 

Documentation

Not available.