Report for October 2019

Report Date

October 2019

Report for October 2019 by Ken Miller

Achievements in Last Period:

Work Stream (A)

• Dual run of VAT return via For:sight for last quarters VAT return to be carried out.  
• A number conference calls held between Finance and Arkk to identify issues and work towards resolution.  Target date of 31/10/2019 not achieved but good progress made.
• The Tax Office have escalated the outstanding issues with Arkk with the hope for quick resolution.
• Arkk confirmed the process to promote the For:sight instance from PoC to Live.

Work Stream (B)

• Liaise with Finance regarding resolution of outstanding issues.
• Release of final upgrade to DEV and TEST for UAT.
• After sign off from Finance roll out of final release to Live.  Awaiting final confirmation that project updates now completed and signed off in Live.

Issues:

• (A) It has been confirmed that we will require a new legal contact.  Joanne MacConnell will be replaced by Esther Duncan.  Joanne's last day is 4th Oct and Esther doesn't start until November so there will be a gap.  During this period any correspondence should go to legalservices@ed.ac.uk, and a colleague will pick this up.
• (A) There remains a small manual element to the MTD process which may make it non MTD compliant.  This risk has raised with the UoE Tax Office and they have agreed that they are the owner of this risk.
• (B) The release to Live did not progress as smoothly as had been expected with a couple of issues still outstanding.  A review meeting has been arranged to review the release issues to ensure lesson's are learnt. 

Next Steps:

Work Stream (A)

• Dual run of VAT return via For:sight for last quarters VAT return to be carried out.  
• Progress of PoC phase of project through to sign off.
• DPIA to be addressed once UAT has been signed off.
• Clarify issues F Eardley has raised regarding the Arkk SLA.

Work Stream (B)

• Receive final sign off from Finance regarding upgrade.
• Carry out review of post go live issues and record in lesson's learned log to ensure they do not happen again.

Milestones: