May 2016

Report Date

May 2016

• Achievements

• This project has now been assigned to Andrew Stewart
• Delivery of solution to calculate cost of parts deleivered, but still to be fully tested within the mobile appliction on an Android device
• Project team has re-focussed on preparing a revised project plan and in particular identifying roles and responibilities for Estates personnel
• Concern regarding additional work regarding the requirement to concatenate the employee name and number has been alleviated after discussions with the supplier and representatives from IS Development
• Project planning has re-focussed on activities with regards to go-live with regards to;
  • a user training plan has been drafted with regarsd to Estates personnel and business users
  • clarification of buiness fault reporters
  • user guides
  • mobile apllication roll-out to the trades staff mobile phones
  • basic system set-up data
  • strategy to generate floor drawings with regards the mobile application
  • load testing on the system

Issues

• Technical issues have impacted on the development of user guides over a period of around a week
• Due to system issues, the test system was directed to the back-up site.  However, as a result of subsequent certificate issues
  • Access to the mobile application on Andriod devices was denied (Apple IOS is ok) due to issues in the certificate chain - This is currently unresolved and has been escalted through both the project manager and Development Technology manager to the ITI Unix team
  • Access to the WebCentral was denied, irrespective of EASE authentication being switched-on/off - now resolved
• Monthly Billing / Archiving
  • Whilst clarifying the proces to complete the monthly billing and archiving process, this solution will require the archiving process to be run manually.  This does not fully deliver the specifiied requirements according to the project team.  Whilst acceptable to go-live, there will be the requirement to re-visit this is the future
  • Due to a revised business process with regarsd to PAT testing, a further cahnge to the billing process will be required
• The project has been re-planned with the implementation delayed unti early September to allow for the completion of the remaining project tasks, whilst taking into account annual holidays and the impact of the financial year end.
• Due to the elongated time of the project, there will be the requirement to increase the overall project budget

Next Steps

• Monthly Billing
  • Determine impact of required changes and schedule development
• Load Testing, scheduled for late June will be undertaken using the customer fault reporting screen
• Continue the work associated with
  • clarification of buiness fault reporters
  • user guides
  • mobile apllication roll-out to the trades staff mobile phones
  • basic system set-up data
  • undertake system load testing