Organisation

Work/Task Breakdown

A work task breakdown has been developed for the project using the MOSCOW approach i.e. Must have, Should have, Could have, Won't Have  

Must Have (Required To Deliver Statutory Return And Included In Current Estimate)

• Upgrade Corporate Planner software to Corporate Planer Advanced
  • Request new virtual servers from ITI (with input from supplier)
  • Configure servers and firewalls as per suppliers instructions in preparation for upgrade and migration
  • These delverables will become the new LIVE infrastructure for Corporate Planner Advanced
  • Update existing TAD and any supporting documentation
• Support Management Accounting and External Supplier through Upgrade, Migration, UAT and deployment process
• Handover to Production Management

Should Have (In Scope But Not Included In Current Agreed Estimate)

• Establish SLA with supplier
• To agree support arrangements between Finance (FIS and Management Accounting) and IS Apps (IS Apps assume that Coprporate Planner will be supported under the existing support model and budgets agreed with Finance)
• Establish SLA between Finance and IS Applications 
• Obtain requirements from FIS and Corporate Planner for Interface details
• Gather and define requirements and estimate work for Interface file from eFin

Could Have (Out of Scope)

• Set up TEST environment if required there see TEST Environment Required or Not

Won't Have - Out of scope 

• Development of Corpororate Planner interfaces

Although the initial high level guestimate was 20 days, now that an initial meeting has taken place further details have evolved and the revised estimate covers what has to be delivered by the statutory deadline of mid October.

The tasks have been estimated and for the Essential Must Deliver tasks  - IS Apps will require 23-25 days

The other requirements require some decisions and clarifications before they can be reasonably estimated.

Hardware costs

• Here are the indicative 5 year costs for the 2 live VM servers. IS APPS have provided the breakdown for your information. ITI will confirm the actual costs in I130823-0594.
  •  App Server  = £1730
  • (memory £1517, 100GB Disk £127, 100GB backup £86) 
  • DB Server = £2993
  • (memory £1818, 550GB Disk £700, 550GB backup £475)

Resources Skills and Cost The Project Plan can be found  : FIN092 Project Plan