Steady progress has been made on the project with development effort presently underway for a third and final agile sprint associated with development.
The benefit of the agile approach to the project has been the ability to adapt to the raising of change requests and to support the revision of business priorities.
All sprint releases have been deferred in order to allow more immediate focus on clearing and testing the backlog of work. There will now be a single release for the entire project.
Issues
As much as 25% of development resource time has been lost to competing and unplanned, higher prioritised project demands. In addition, time was also sacrificed to enable interview attendance at short notice over a number of days. This resulted in a revised delivery focus on the 'Must Have' Jira issues with lower prioritised requirements dropped from a fourth sprint.
Non-availability of production resource and further development resource conflict means that the earliest opportunity to deliver the project will now be the last week in July. A change request and additional risks have been raised for this date movement.
