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Buy@Ed now live |
Buy@Ed is a searchable web-based database that improves access for University staff (& the general public) to information on contracted products and suppliers within the University.
The Buy@Ed application will help to reduce off-contract spend by guiding staff to the relevant active contracts, as well as improving efficiency by reducing double-entry of contract data in the Procurement Office.
The site is currently being populated with data by the Procurement Office and will be publicly launched in April.
Procurement Office have sent the following note: - |
Dawn Holmes |
18-Mar-2014 |
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Weekly update w/c 24/03/2014 |
- Overnight scheduled task now activated in live
- Completion report submitted for WIS approval
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Dawn Holmes |
28-Mar-2014 |
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Weekly update w/c 17/03/2014 |
- Draft closure report distributed for comment.
- TAD and Op Doc completed.
- Handover to Tech Management has taken place
- Closure meeting held and sign-off of the project was agreed.
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Dawn Holmes |
21-Mar-2014 |
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Weekly update w/c 10/03/2014 |
- The final release (v2.2) went live on Thursday 13th. This release included an assortment of bug fixes and enhancements which are documented on the Release 2.2 (maintenance) page
- Development is now complete and the project will move to the closure phase.
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Dawn Holmes |
14-Mar-2014 |
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Weekly update w/c 03/03/2014 |
- The latest release was deployed to live on Monday morning
- The project is now in maintenance phase and work will focus on addressing items of user feedback. The developers are now only working on the project part-time.
- Test Polopoly was taken offline for 3 days for a database migration which preventing user testing and development of any styling-related stories. This was escalated to WIS.
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Dawn Holmes |
07-Mar-2014 |
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Weekly update w/c 28/02/2014 |
- This is the 2nd week of the final development iteration.
- All of the planned User Stories for this iteration have been completed, plus a number of enhancements and changes based on feedback from the Procurement Office.
- Procurement Office staff are joining the team for the end-of-iteration review so that they can give further feedback on their experiences using the system
- Live release is planned for Monday
- Next week will be the start of the maintenance iteration
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Dawn Holmes |
28-Feb-2014 |
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Weekly update w/c 17/02/2014 |
- This is week 1 of the final development iteration (2.0B)
- Planning meeting held with the Product Owner from Procurement Office to select urse stories for development, These have been documented on the Iteration 2.0B page
- Further issues experienced with Test Polopoly and the site was unavailable for 2 days which delayed the installation and testing of the latest styling
- Meeting planned with Procurement Office for next week to get direct feedback before the maintenance iteration
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Dawn Holmes |
20-Feb-2014 |
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Weekly update w/c 03/02/2014 |
- Planning meeting held for development iteration 2.0A. Selected User Stories for development are documented at https://www.projects.ed.ac.uk/project/pps006/iteration2.0A
- First live release of Buy@Ed on 4th Feb to allow Procurement Office to start setting up master data
- Test Polopoly was still unavailable this week but was restored late on Thursday afternoon.
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Dawn Holmes |
07-Feb-2014 |
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Release 1 of Buy@Ed now live |
This first release of Buy@Ed includes an interface of procurement contracts from APUC's Hunter system, an admin system for Procurement Office to add supplementary information, and a public-facing search facility so that staff, students or the general public can search for information on purchasing contracts (i.e. where and how to buy stuff).
Procurement Office are now checking and supplementing the data and the User Group will be asked for feedback. |
Dawn Holmes |
04-Feb-2014 |
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Weekly update w/c 27/01/2014 |
- This is the second week of iteration 1.0D. The team has made reasonable progress this iteration despite the ongoing technical issues.
- WIS approved an additional 5 days resource budget for addressing the technical issues
- The planned go-live has been cancelled as we were unable to complete testing due the Test Polopoly being unavailable for over a week (and is still unavailable)
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Dawn Holmes |
31-Jan-2014 |
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Weekly update w/c 20/01/2014 |
- This is week 1 of iteration 1.0D
- Planning meeting held on Monday morning to select the User Stories for this iteration. These are recorded at https://www.projects.ed.ac.uk/project/pps006/iteration1.0d
- The onoing technical issues are still causing delays. An additional 5 days budget has been secured from the programme budget to cover this
- The software has finally been installed into the Test environment (by disabling the automated tests) so that Procurement Office can start acceptance testing
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Dawn Holmes |
24-Jan-2014 |
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Weekly update w/c 13/01/2014 |
- This is the 2nd week of development iteration 1.0C. One of the developers has been off sick for 2 days this week so development velocity is slightly lower than planned
- We're still experiencing issues with Bamboo automated deployment related to the technical environment.
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Dawn Holmes |
17-Jan-2014 |
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Weekly update w/c 06/01/2014 |
- Planning meeting held for development iteration 1.0C
- Overview session held with new Apps Support rep to bring them up to speed
- Design options for supplier/contract quick search reviewed with Product Owner
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Dawn Holmes |
10-Jan-2014 |
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Weekly update w/c 16/12/2013 |
- One of the developers in on annual leave this week but this had been allowed for in the iteration planning so overall progress was not affected
- Procurement Office have reviewed the draft designs and expressed a preference for design 2
- There are ongoing issues with the technical environment which are being pursued in conjunction with project CSG002 as they are also affected
- End of iteration meeting held for iteration 1.0B. Demos took place of the User Admin, Quick Search and search results stories.
- The team explored the supplier/contract complexities as
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Dawn Holmes |
20-Dec-2013 |
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Weekly update w/c 02/12/13 |
- This is the 2nd week of iteration 1.0a and work has focussed on the Hunter interface and user admin
- Progress has been slightly slower than planned as we've been experiencing issues with the Bamboo automated deployment, which has not been used with Sequel Server before (this is logged in the issue/change log as an issue)
- The planned end of iteration review has been rescheduled to Monday due to the severe weather , as not all team members were able to get into the office.
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Dawn Holmes |
05-Dec-2013 |
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Weekly update w/c 25th Nov 2013 |
- Iteration 1.0a started this week. The selected User Stories for development are documented at https://www.projects.ed.ac.uk/project/pps006/iteration1.0a
- The graphic design team have been engaged to look at design for the public-facing web pages
- There have been issues with the technical set-up which are delaying the development
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Dawn Holmes |
29-Nov-2013 |
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Weekly update w/c 18th Nov 2013 |
User Story workshop held with staff users. Outputs documented on website at https://www.projects.ed.ac.uk/project/pps006/page-4
- Technical environment set-up continuing
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Dawn Holmes |
29-Nov-2013 |
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Weekly update w/c 11th Nov 2013 |
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Dawn Holmes |
29-Nov-2013 |
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Weekly update w/c 4th Nov 2013 |
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Dawn Holmes |
29-Nov-2013 |
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Weekly update w/c 02/09/13 |
- Meeting held with Business Rep to discuss project objectives, timelines and potential stakeholders
- Meeting held with IS Apps resource managers to try and secure development resources but this has been deferred to next Monday's CSG resourcing meeting as the timescales are likely to impact on other CSG projects
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Dawn Holmes |
05-Sep-2013 |
