Plan

Executive Summary

 

 

Business Objectives and Project Deliverables

 

No

Description

New or Changed (Y/N)

O1

 

 

D1

 

 

D2

 

 

O2

 

 

D1

 

Cost Benefit Analysis

Five Year Costs

 

Tangible Costs Summary

5 Year

Summary  

IT Services i.e. IS staff, hardware, software and services

Support Group Staff Costs

College Staff Costs

Total

Work/Task Breakdown

Phase 1 developments and activities

Business requirements – Application Management / Service Management

Development by Development Team, includes an implementation plan

Create and document UAT TEST Scenarios - Service Management

Document a TEST Plan – Application Management / Service Management

UAT – Service Management

Deploy to Live- Development Technology

 

Phase 2 development and activities

Prioritise issues that have small development and business need

Background

This project is to resolve known issues on the Identity Management - IDM service and responding to changing business environment. There are a number of Known Errors held on JIRA which require development and are likely to change in response to consultation with stakeholders and operational issues,  The Continual Service Improvement work on the IDM, such as the adding and amending functionality in response to changing needs of data providers and consumers, as well as targeted improvements to address bugs or other problems.

 

Priority and Funding

This project has been classified as Discretionary - Priority 2 and Core Funded.

Funding is limited to 50 days effort and expected to deliver changes in 2 phases February 2016 and May 2016 (to be confirmed)

 

Impact and Dependencies

The project has limited funding therefore only a subset of the known issues will be resolved. If an known issue, which has been recommended for development, is deemed more complex then it will be placed 'on hold' to allow other less complex issues be developed, tested and implemented.

Background

Student Systems has responsibilities relating to (in additions to other areas) admissions and student data held on EUCLID and related systems, key student survey data including NSS and EvaSys course evaluation data, and the statutory Key Information Set return.

Early in 2015 Student Systems were provided a steer from senior management to:

Priority and Funding

This is a priority 2 project.

Project is funded by the SSP ring-fenced budget to cover the cost of the SSP staff: SITS developers/SSP project manager.

There is additional funding made available from Student Systems for Other IS resources and the SSP BI developer. 

 

Impact and Dependencies

1. Dependency

- from COM025 BI architecture project which will deliver a proof of concept in the summer. Stakeholders have been engaging with COM025. It is noted this is not a showstopper to deliver this project.

Work/Task Breakdown

Tasks

Deliverables

Owners

Project Management

Project authorisation, Planning and Project documents. Communication and coordination with stakeholders. 

Manage project, sign off, resources, budget, risks, issues and reporting.

IS Project Services for the IS Strands