Report for November 2019

Report Date
November 2019

Achievements this Period

  • System related documentation 
    • The System Design Specification (SDS) document has been forwarded to the Production team 
    • The Technical Architecture Document (TAD) with the Production team
    • Test strategy has been confirmed regarding testing user access on the Live system 
  • Healthy Working 
    • Discussions have resolved the set up for the new Healthy Working application whereby, having migrated the old Cardinus Risk Assessment and Training data to Healthy Working
      • UoE will create a conversion file to replace the current Staff Id with UUN
      • The previous 2-level Organisational Hierarchy data will be removed and replaced with a 3-level hierarchy relating to levels 4,5 and 6
  • Build
    • The build of the account provisioning file has been completed, incorporating;
      • data extract from IDM and Organisational Hierarchy 
      • automate sftp transfer process
    • The sftp environment has been created on the Development environment 
  • Data Transfer 
    • Work is on-going to investigate the suppliers preferred option of data encryption of PGP
    • Discussions are on-going with Information Security regarding the data transfer 
    • Confirmation to use visitor data has been confirmed by Service Management 

Issues 

  • Due to a combination of holidays and Industrial action, it has not been possible to progress
    • Singe Sign-On
    • Creation of database account to process the extract 
    • PGP encryption
  • There has been a requirement to re-plan the project to accommodate the stated delays, resulting in the previously planned go-live being delayed by 3 weeks to the end of January

Next Steps

  • Build Phase 
    • Complete technical build 
      • Account provisioning 
      • Single Sign-On (SSO)
      • sftp environments on Test and Live 
      • PGP encryption 
  • Data Transfer 
    • Confirm approvals from 
      • Information security 
      • Student Services to use student golden copy data 
  • User Acceptance Testing 
    • Commence User Acceptance testing 
Project Status
RAG Status
Time
AMBER
Cost
GREEN
Scope
GREEN
Overall
AMBER
RAG Commentary
Resulting from an extended period to complete the initial provisioning file and the impact of the Industrial action, the planned go-live date will require to be moved back by 3 weeks to the end of January 2020. This delay does not have any impact on the business
Change Status
Time
Within Tolerance
Cost
No Change
Scope
No Change
Overall
Within Tolerance
Has formal escalation taken place?
No
Change Commentary
The scheduled go-live date is being delayed by 3 weeks to the end of January 2020
Activity
Approved budget
58.0 days
Activity this month
14.3 days
Activity this year
33.4 days
Activity to date
33.4 days
Estimate to complete current year
17.1 days
Estimate to complete future years
0.0 days

Project Info

Project
Cardinus SSO and Account Provisioning
Code
HAS007
Programme
Health & Safety (HAS)
Management Office
ISG PMO
Project Manager
Andrew Stewart
Project Sponsor
Candice Schmid
Current Stage
Plan
Status
In Progress
Start Date
20-Sep-2019
Planning Date
18-Oct-2019
Delivery Date
14-Feb-2020
Close Date
28-Feb-2020
Overall Priority
Normal

Documentation