March Report

Report Date

March 2013

Report by Anne Mathison for March 2013

Achievements in Last Period -

• Release to TEST re Phase 2 TYE & RTI completed 5th March
• UAT for Phase 2 for TYE & RTI completed on 6-7th March
  • UAT was not signed off by the Business due to some payroll processing occurring twice, so the Go Live planned for 11-12th March was cancelled and delayed until issues were sorted.
  • Rescheduled for later in March
• Milestones and estimates revised for remaining Phase 2 pieces of work
• P2 TYE & RTI signed off in LIVE 27th March.  
• Unplanned Urgent AE Patch required. Completed in DEV on 27th March and signed off 27th March
• Unplanned Urgent AE Patch required. Completed in TEST on 28th March and signed off on 29th March
• Unplanned Urgent AE Patch required. Completed in LIVE on 1st April and signed off on 1st April

Issues

• P2 P60 coded however had an issue  and has been raised with Oracle
• First unplanned Auto-enrolment work was required as soon as possible and had to be accommodated before the tight P2 TYE + RTI patches deadlines.
  • This then reduced the time available for TYE + RTI in Dev and Test
  • Separating out and replanning the P2 Security patches
  • Delaying implementing the P60 work
• Original TYE & RTI work was delayed deploying to LIVE from 11th-12th March to 26-27th March
• HR Globals caused errors when completing patches, however this was resolved in time for the go LIVE implementation  of TYE & RTI on 26-27 March.
• Unplanned Urgent TYE + RTI required patch arrived 25-Mar-13 also required for Phase 2 go LIVE - was progressed after the TYE & RTI on 26-27 March and progressed in time to go LIVE 1st April

Next Steps

• P2 P60 with Oracle, hope to have resolved during April - no down time required.
• P3 JRE patches and Password change scheduled for April, DEV 3rd April, TEST 9th April and LIVE 2nd May.
• P3 more RTI patches and Security Patches planned during May

Milestones