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Weekly update w/c 27/10/14 |
- Meeting held with Registry and Finance reps to agree scenarios for user testing
- Test data extracted from eFin
- Testers set-up in relevant systems
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Dawn Holmes |
03-Nov-2014 |
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Weekly update w/c 1310/2014 |
- Meeting arranged for w/c 27th Oct to discuss test scenarios (due to annual leave this is the first available date)
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Dawn Holmes |
17-Oct-2014 |
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Weekly update w/c 01/09/14 |
- Integration testing still has not taken place due to resource conflicts in Applications Management. This has been escalated to senior managers.
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Dawn Holmes |
05-Sep-2014 |
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Weekly update w/c 11/08/14 |
- new application now fully deployed to Test & ready for integration testing
- timeline re-planned to incorporate agreed project suspension from mid-Sep 14 to Jan 15. For more details please see Issue Log item 9
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Dawn Holmes |
15-Aug-2014 |
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Weekly update w/c 04/08/14 |
- Meetings with Income Section and Financial Accounts reps to try and clarify the required financial coding and new business process. Theere are still further areas to clarify.
- Integration testing planned for next week
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Dawn Holmes |
08-Aug-2014 |
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Weekly update w/c 28/07/14 |
- Build review meeting held and build stage signed-off
- Meeting held with business partners from FSS and FIS to plan next steps and agree timelines
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Dawn Holmes |
01-Aug-2014 |
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Weekly update w/c 21/07/14 |
- Peer testing has been undertaken this week. Some small enhancements have been requested for re-work.
- Build sign-off meeting booked for next week.
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Dawn Holmes |
25-Jul-2014 |
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Weekly update w/c 14/07/14 |
- New application is awaiting peer testing
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Dawn Holmes |
18-Jul-2014 |
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Weekly update w/c 07/07/14 |
- Final parts of software build have taken place this week.
- Peer testing has been moved back to next week
- Due to annual leave in FIS there is still no decision on the use of suspense/bank details in the batch headers (Jira ref FIN094-16)
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Dawn Holmes |
11-Jul-2014 |
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Weekly update w/c 30/06/14 |
- Meeting held with reps from all stakeholder groups to walk through the proposed business process from end-to-end. This highlighted some areas that we need to ensure are captured during UAT (e.g. can individual invoice line be reversed without affecting other invoice lines, will the bank account reference be visible in standard eFin screens etc)
- Meeting held to discuss the walk-through meeting feedback and evaluate the impact on the software build.
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Dawn Holmes |
04-Jul-2014 |
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Weekly update w/c 23/06/14 |
- Software development almost complete
- Meeting arranged with all major stakeholders for next week to walk through the new process
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Dawn Holmes |
27-Jun-2014 |
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Weekly update w/c 02/06/14 |
- Development started this week
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Dawn Holmes |
06-Jun-2014 |
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Weekly update w/c 26/05/14 |
- Outstanding Project Brief finally signed off and submitted to WIS for approval
- Meeting held with FIS and Registry to walk through the proposed design
- System Design Specification completed and loaded onto website for review (secured to project team members only)
- Design review meeting held to discuss the overall design and to give Apps Mgmnt and Dev Tech chance to flag up any concerns. Apos Mgmnt requested that the database be changed from studebt to finlive_ERA for supportability.
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Dawn Holmes |
29-May-2014 |
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Weekly update w/c 12/05/14 |
- Project Brief amended to reflect the decision not to use JAMS
- Business Requirements Document underway in parallel with draft design. Screen mock-ups will be reviewed with Finance at our regular meeting next week.
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Dawn Holmes |
16-May-2014 |
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Weekly update w/c 05/05/14 |
- Meeting held with Project Sponsor, who has confirmed that the process is not to be fully automated and is not to utilise JAMS. Instead the interface will only be automated as far as the eFIn CLINK tables, FIS will then manually post the payment allocations into eFin to retain financial control. Project Brief will be amended accordingly.
- Developer secured to begin design work based on the new agreed scope
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Dawn Holmes |
09-May-2014 |
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Weekly update w/c 28/04/14 |
- Internal IS estimation and planning meeting undertaken to evaluate option of utilising JAMS to automate the interface
- Provisional resource bookings placed in Asta
- Developer resource conflicts from other Finance projects reviewed and resolved
- Internal IS discussion regarding the possibility of combining with the ePay project for a more cohesive solution
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Dawn Holmes |
01-May-2014 |
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Weekly update w/c 21/04/14 |
- Trial batch posting undertaken on Dev system to establish proof of concept
- Meeting with Finance stakeholders to review Project brief & discuss options
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Dawn Holmes |
25-Apr-2014 |
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Weekly update w/c 14/04/14 |
- Still no feedback received from Finance on the draft project brief sent on 8th April. Reminder sent on 11th. Key stakeholders are now on leave for Easter.
- Meeting held with Registry to walk through process map and discuss options for changing the current file format
- Meeting held with IS Apps reps to discuss potential solution-sharing via JAMS
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Dawn Holmes |
17-Apr-2014 |
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Weekly update w/c 07/04/14 |
- Meeting held with Finance reps to discuss project objectives.
- Draft project brief distributed for approval (though no responses received as at Friday 11th)
- A much clearer picture is what is required is now emerging and the outstanding queries are now being tracked in Jira.
- FIS are running some manually created files through Test eFin to determine what format/content will be needed
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Dawn Holmes |
11-Apr-2014 |
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Weekly update w/c 31/03/14 |
- Additional process information sought from Finance business rep, Income Section and Registry
- Key FInance Business Rep is on leave this week but a meeting has been scheduled for Monday to discuss next steps
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Dawn Holmes |
04-Apr-2014 |
