Report for March 2013

Report Date

March 2013

System Build work (excluding APEX forms) completed.

Issues:

Oracle canceled its course offering for the APEX software, which the project's second developer was scheduled to attend in late March.  Oracle offered a place on the June course offering in London, but this would not have allowed the subsequent HESA forms development to meet the hard HESA milestones.  The only other option offered by Oracle was that the University secure an additional course offering in April in Edinburgh, by booking four places on that course.  IS Applications have secured this new course offering.  However, its delay will mean that the APEX forms will not be completed in time for the planned release of the Build for UAT testing.  It has been agreed with the Business Area Manager that the rest of the Build will be released on the agreed schedule, and that the APEX forms will follow when they become available. 

The project team has still not received the complete business requirement for deriving the LEVELS field.  Since this phase of the Build is now complete, any subsequent changes to the preliminary business logic provided for this field will be raised through a Jira and applied during the UAT stage.  

The PPIP requirements, although completed as part of the project's Build stage, were subsequently removed from the project's scope by the Business Area Manager.  The PPIP database and code changes that were applied by the second developer have therefore been removed.  

Next Steps:

Business Area Manager to provide the full business logic required to derive LEVELS.

Developers to attend Oracle APEX training.

Second developer to build APEX forms.

Build (excluding APEX forms) to be reviewed and signed off by ISA project team and managers.

Build (excluding APEX forms) to be deployed to Test and Integration tested.

Build (excluding APEX forms) to be released for UAT testing.

Remaining Milestones: