Project journal

Title Description Author Post date
w/c 27th October 2014
  • Project closure report drafted and circulatde to the project team
  • Project team meeting held and project closure report approved after incorporating additional comments
  • project closure report circulated to project board
  • Project closure submitted to WIS
Andrew Stewart 30-Oct-2014
w/c 13th October 2014
  • Project team meeting held
    • Review of Gap Analysis Red RAG status
    • Formal acceptance of Financial Managagement Process Review
  • Project closure questionairre circulated
Andrew Stewart 16-Oct-2014
w/c 6th October 2014
  • Project board meeting held
Andrew Stewart 16-Oct-2014
w/c 29th September 2014
  • First draft of the Financial Management Process Review circulated to the project team
  • Amended Financial mangement Process Review to incorporate feedback and circulated to teh project team
  • Prepared and circulated project board papers for meeting on 8th October
  • Reviewed and updated project Risk Register
Andrew Stewart 16-Oct-2014
w/c 22nd September 2014
  • Project team meeting held
    • Requirement to formally approve the Gap Analysis report
  • Commenced final business recommendations report
Andrew Stewart 22-Sep-2014
w/c 15th September 2014
  • Project board minutes (from 3rd September) circulated
  • Workshop meeting to review -  Receipting of works/services and potential approaches for processing the related invoices. Representtaives from Procurement, Estates and Buildings, Finance, Accounts payable and IS Applications
  • Demonstration of eStores and it's relationship with eFinancials stock
  • Preperation completed for Webcentral Capital Budgeting demonstartion next week
Andrew Stewart 15-Sep-2014
w/c 8th September 2014
  • Approval process required for Gap Analysis
  • Minutes of board meeting (3rd September) reviewed and adjusted

 

Andrew Stewart 15-Sep-2014
w/c 1st September 2014
  • Project team meeting to review and finalise Gap Analysis report, with requirement to be be approved by 5th September
  • Meeting with Accounts Payabel to consider solution to single purchase order and subsequent muultiple invoices.  As a result it was a greed to set up a small workshop to review prrocedures ustilising the various test systems during w/c 15th September
  • Project Board meeting
Andrew Stewart 15-Sep-2014
w/c 25th August 2014
  • Updated Gap Analysis report based on findings on investigations into potential solutions to resolve ordering and procurement gaps, namely; PECOS, SciQuest and eProcurement
  • Prepared project board papers for next week's project board meeting
Andrew Stewart 15-Sep-2014
w/c 18th August 2014
  • Continued investigations regarding reported gaps within ordering and procurement re eFinancials
  • Project team attended demonstration of eProcurement
Andrew Stewart 15-Sep-2014
w/c 11th August 2014
  • Continued investigations regarding reported gaps within ordering and procurement re eFinancials
  • Project team meeting to review Gap Analysis and update according to findings
Andrew Stewart 15-Sep-2014
w/c 4th August 2014
  • Continued investigations regarding reported gaps within ordering and procurement re eFinancials
  • Project team attended demostrations of both PECOS and SciQuest to determine if these coudl provide solutions to business requirements
Andrew Stewart 15-Sep-2014
w/c 28th July 2014
  • Gap Analysis
    • Initial review of Gap Analysis report by Project - Procurement team
  • Project Board
    • Project board papers prepared and circulated
    • Project board meeting held on 30th July
  • Project Planning
    • Commenced re-planning exercise based on feedback from the project board regarding procurement and ordering
  • Budget Reporting
    • Demonstration to project team of how Research currently use eFinanciials for budget planning and control

 

Andrew Stewart 30-Jul-2014
w/c 21st July 2014
  • Project team meeting held
  • Project Risk Register reviewed
  • Draft version ofd Gap Analysis completed
Andrew Stewart 21-Jul-2014
w/c 3rd February 2014
  • Review of related bsuiness stakeholders regarding business analysis
  • Workshop held with regards to the defined streams of authorisation levels, requisition and procurement
Andrew Stewart 07-Feb-2014
w/c 25th Novemvber 2013
  • Project Brief - On-going discussions with Finance regarding resourcing assistance for this project and re-sumbitted to WIS
  • Project re-planned and milestones amended after discussions with project sponsor
  • Project board members representing Finance and Procurement identified
  • Project risks associated with Options Appraisal and Finance representtaion reduced to Amber on the agreement that the eFinancials supplier ABS would be contracted to assisyt with the Gap Analysis phase of the project
Andrew Stewart 27-Nov-2013
w/c 14th October 2013
  • Commenced Project Terms of Reference
Andrew Stewart 17-Oct-2013

Project Info

Project
Estates and Buildings Department Financial Management Process Review
Code
EST075
Programme
Estates General Programme (EST)
Project Manager
Andrew Stewart
Project Sponsor
Maureen Masson
Current Stage
Close
Status
Closed
Start Date
01-Sep-2013
Planning Date
n/a
Delivery Date
n/a
Close Date
31-Oct-2014
Programme Priority
2
Overall Priority
Normal
Category
Compliance