Report for January 2016

Report Date

January 2016

Achievements in Last Period

• The DEV Build Supplier on-site days took place on Jan 14/15 and the new v21 DEV environment initial Build was completed
• The data import as part of the v21 environment, which was trialled as part of the Proof of Concept project, HRS086, was very successful. The data imported in a fraction of the time expected.
• HR completed a preliminary workshop with the Supplier on v21
• HR have been progressing with the e-learning modules which are a pre-requisite to UAT taking place.
• HR have created draft test plans and have uploaded them into the supplier's TestRail system
• UoE team members have started using the supplier's Teamwork and JIRA systems to help facilitate good communications in the team
• Colleagues in the University have been approached to join the User Group to complete coverage of all the personas/roles for the eRecruitment system.

Issues

There are unresolved issues with the v21 DEV environment which is limiting testing progress. The Complete DEV upgrade milestone has been moved to 12/02/16. As the JIRAs are still unresolved, it is expected that there will be an impact to the subsequent milestones in the project. The Supplier is treating these JIRAs with the highest priority.The project's RAG status for Time is being set to RED because it is expected that the Delivery date may be a month later than currently planned. However, the team are looking to reduce the downtime required for TEST and LIVE as result of the experiences in DEV so the delay to deliver may be less than a month.

Next Steps

• Resolve issues on the upgraded v21 DEV environment
• Complete the DEV BI Universe work
• Review Business readiness work and re-plan where necessary to follow DEV environment work
• Schedule User Group meetings with revised membership
• HR Systems to complete the elearning pre-requisites
• Develop Communications plan