4/9/13 Team Meeting

Attending:

Morna Findlay, Garry Robertson, Anne Finnan, Mark Lang, Paul Ranaldi

 

FIS Test plan

Morna asked Garry to provide IS apps with the FIS test plan so that IS apps can both indicate which tests may not be required or may need to be added to the plan.

Garry said that there was no a specific plan yet, but he would try to do this by the end of the day.

Morna stated that the lack of a plan could be a risk to the acceptance sign-off.

 

ACTION:

Garry to send proposed TEST plan to team

 

Annual Leave

 

Garry indicated that he would be on annual leave during the next two weeks when progress with testing would need to be made. Morna will ask Liz who should be the FIS contact for this project in Garry's absence,

 

ACTION:

Morna to ask project sponsor for alternative FIS representative in Garry's absence,.

 

 

Interface testing

Anne has not yet had time to make progress with the testing of interfaces.

 

ACTION:

Morna to put in new booking request for appman to carry out required UAT.

 

LIVE migration date

 

Garry confirmed that 25 October is the preferred date for Finance ( given IS Apps leave)

Morna asked if FIS had extended the e-expenses support from ABS until then.

 

ACTION:

Morna to query e-expenses support arrangements with FIS

 

TEST licenses

 

These should arrive today.

 

ABS dataguard call

 

Mark will chase this up today. Morna stated that we need ABS to confirm Mark's expected fix will not invalidate their support.

 

ACTION:

Mark to chase up ABS dataguard/triggers call

 

DR/Rollback/resilience improvements

 

Ewan has submitted a report on the current status of DR/resilience and proposed improvements. Garry indicated that improvements  may be out of scope. Garry will confirm this decision with Liz.

 

ACTION:

Garry to confirm with project sponsor if any DR/resilience improvements are within scope.

 

 

Project Actions

 

Actions from today's meeting:

  1. Morna to put in new booking request for appman to carry out required UAT.
  2. Garry to send proposed TEST plan to team
  3. Morna to ask project sponsor for alternative FIS representative in Garry's absence,.
  4. Morna to query e-expenses support arrangements with FIS
  5. Mark to chase up ABS dataguard/triggers call
  6. Garry to confirm with project sponsor if any DR/resilience improvements are within scope.
  7. Garry to check if e-expenses is still supported in October.

 

Actions carried over from 28/8/13

  1. Garry to discuss estimate with Liz.
  2. Morna to discuss estimate with Rhian
  3. Mark to put SSS into TEST
  4. Garry to open call re testing SSS with ABS.
  5. Garry to deliver FIS test plan to IS applications and report on testing progress.

 

Actions carried over from 19/8/13

 

  1. All to sign off project brief and estimate  or to raise issues if cannot sign off.
  2. Mark to confirm dataguard/trigger solution acceptable to ABS.

Actions carried over from  12/8/13

  1. Garry will contact business owners and ask them to carry out UAT for their interfaces