Organisation
Work/Task Breakdown
- Requirements gathering to include:
- Speaking to stakeholders in Cleaning, Portering (Servitorial), Waste, Furniture, Trades and Estates Financial Control and those raising requests in Schools/Colleges/SGs
- Documenting the existing processes
- Suggestion to speak to ‘active’ fault reporters and ‘inactive’ fault reporters for views on why they do use/don’t use the existing EBIS online system
- Obtaining the most recent annual E&B Customer Survey for feedback on existing fault reporting system
- Review of data through existing fault reporting to help establish proposed categories for reporting
- Demo of Module
- Gap Analysis
- Agreed Process Flows
- Determine feasability of replacing paper based system with mobile technology
- via small proof of concept
- include in plan a number of decision points to detemine if project should STOP/GO
- detemine findings with mobile technology (are current iPhones fit for purpose etc? - identify who will decide on this?)
- Review new module for Help Desk utilising WebCentral
- Revise Business Requirements
- Workshop with MASS, Projects and Estates to review existing functionaility
- Consider how it aligns to mobile technology
- What are Estates proposing to do.
- Configure new module if required
- understand what it can do straight out of the box.
- Ensure MASS provided completed Business Requirements a minimum of 1 week before on SITE
- MASS and Estates work together to set up the system including IS Apps
- Acceptance Testing
- Acceptance Testing
- Prior to Acceptance Testing a data refresh of DEV and TEST from LIVE will be completed
- Including Load Testing
- Live Deployment
- Estates Roll out
- Close
Resources Skills and Cost
Through preparing the Project Brief, it has been suggested that provision be made for external consultancy (probably Mass) to minimise any misunderstandings regarding the On-Demand module and to
- Provide a full overview of the functional capabilities of the standard out of the box version on of the On-Demand module
- Assist with the Gap Analysis associated with the specified business requirements
- Provide guidance regarding system training and configuration within the standard out of the box version of the On-Demand module
Cost
- Provisional external cosultancy is likely to be in the region of £5,000 for upto 5 days
The Project estimate has been provided in the Estimate log, however it is not also obvious where you can see it.
- The Project has been estimated at 95 days
Addtional information on Estates Department Help Desk that will be useful for the project: