Report for January 2013

Report Date

January 2013

Business Requirements Document created and approved

It was agreed at the Business Analysis Review meeting that there is a potential to deliver in a phased approach, with the changes to the HR database and application being released ahead of the rest of the deliverables.  This would allow HR more time to input data into the new HR fields.

Four Design stage meetings have been held with the key business stakeholders

The System Design is progressing well

A new Configuration Team member has been recruited to take forward a significant portion of the Build work

A development request form has been submitted to the Configuration Team manager, for another new team member to attend a training course on the new software tool that will be used to redevelop the HESA forms.

Issues:

The Systems Designer has a great many other demands on her time, for example recruitment and mentoring of new team members.  This has impacted the time she has had available for project work.  Consequently, the Configuration Team Manager has advised that she should now be bookable only to 56% fte.  This has resulted in a milestone delay to the Design stage, and may have a knock-on impact on subsequent milestones.

Next Steps:

System Design to be completed and approved

Estimates to be reviewed, and project re-planned to reflect any changes

Remaining Milestones: