Minutes for 28/11/2013

Summary of  to-days discussion ITS103 - Core Technology updates.

Present

Stevie Conlon, Mark Lang , Maurice Franceschi, Stefan Kaempf, Adam Wheavil

Apologies : Ewan Scott.

 

Next Meeting Thursday 5th December , 4.09.

 

General.

- Maurice noted that budgets on the project were tight and advised strong milestones be planned.

- Mark arranged meeting with development teams reps to detemine what development involvement  (05/12)  may be necessary. There is no budget planned for development involement in CRON or other linked DB work.

- Stevie arranged meeting with Iain Fiddes and Heather Larnach to discuss the make up of APPS ongoing and how it may affect the project.

 

Previous Actions.

 

1. Ensure functional accounts requested from ITI - Mark/Ewan. Complete. Accounts have been requested

2. Dates will move out and comms from users suggest some conflict with SITS operations and projects- Stevie to replan milestones w/c 25/11.

Decision of meeting to split out the closing off of development , testing and deployment milestones for the different databases, NEWS and APP in particular to allow progress on each where possible, without creating dependencies on each other.

The ECA Mini Portolfio has a tight production schedule at the start of the year and may impact delivery of APPS migration. New action Below : -

3. Mark and Ewan will identify good candidates among the CRON jobs to replace with Database scheduled tasks.  Mark/ Ewan. Complete.

4. Ewan to complete documenting preparation for NEWS and publish to the WIKI.   22/11/2013. Ewan  -Ongoing.

5. Adam to identify list of LIVE schemas on APPS and NEWS. - Adam. Complete

6 Team to review lists of Applications and document final list - All . Stevie circulated list of Applications on APPS  from all available sources.New action 7 below

 

New Actions. and actions carried forward,

4. Ewan to complete documenting preparation for NEWS and publish to the WIKI.   22/11/2013. Ewan - Ongoing

7. New Action Stefan to create Golden Copy on the WIKI site. Action Stefan.

8. Stevie to determine the effect of ECA Mini Portfolio Operation on the project and replan milestones and new milestones above accordingly. Action Stevie

9. Stevie and Stefan to respond to any of Anne-Marie Scotts remaing queries. Action Stevie/Stefan.

 

 

Links

Contacts for user groups here    Latest Comms Sheet

Marks Wiki Page All technical documentaion will be here for APPS. Stefan will create Golden Copy for APPS

Ewans Wiki Page on NEWS.

 

 

Previous Actions

 

- Mark to check if infinite is on 11g at present. - Mark has confirmed that Inifinite DB is at 11g , Development Team informed by Stevie. Complete

- Ewan to check access to projects website.- Ewan has appropriate access to the project website. Complete

- Stevie to arrange meeting with Apps Management to discuss testing effort at the Dev stage. Apps Management have agreed to pre-test the development APPS schemas prior to the move. - Complete

 

 

Previous Minutes

- Mark almost completed investigations  into prep for Apps move.

- Ewan to begin prep work this week and complete next . Prior to annual leave.

- Work will be done in parallel with Mark and Ewan involved.

- Mark advised leaving BOXI  as is.

- Ewan suggested a greater testing effort should be applied at the Dev stage to give confidence that the migration process works before moving on the TEST phase.

- discussions took place around replacing CRON jobs with scheduled jobs . Further discussion required.

 

 

Actions

 

- Mark to check if infinite is on 11g at present. - Mark has confirmed that Inifinite DB is at 11g , Development Team informed by Stevie. Complete

- Ewan to check access to projects website.- Ewan has appropriate access to the project website. Complete

- Stevie to arrange meeting with Apps Management to discuss testing effort at the Dev stage. Apps Management have agreed to pre-test the development APPS schemas prior to the move. - Complete

 

 

Project Info

Project
Core Technology Updates
Code
ITS103
Programme
ISG - IS Applications Infrastructure (INF)
Project Manager
Morna Findlay
Project Sponsor
David Smyth
Current Stage
Close
Status
Closed
Start Date
12-Aug-2013
Planning Date
n/a
Delivery Date
n/a
Close Date
01-Aug-2014
Programme Priority
1
Overall Priority
Higher
Category
Compliance