Meeting notes - Kick-off meeting 02/10/13

Attendees

IS Applications - Dawn Nicholls, Jonny Mayo, Mike McMonagle, Martin Jones, Donald Leetch

Procurement Office - Craig Henderson, Jeff Borthwick, Frank Eardley, Simone Martin

Topics for discussion

  • Project goals/objectives/expectations
  • Project approach (agile)
  • Roles & responsibilities
  • Next steps

Outcome

  • Key goal is end user experience i.e. making the data easier to find.
  • New application is a replacement for the current database which is proxied into the Procurement Office web pages.
  • New application should focus on A-Z of Suppliers and Commodity Groups.
  • The APUC database, Hunter, is the only external system to consider. Procurement Office will need an admin function as extra information may be required.

Actions

  • Craig to supply links to current database admin
  • Craig to confirm if new application can be publicly accessible or whether EASE protection needed
  • Procurement Office to consider who to invite to User Groups & supply to Dawn by w/c 7/11/2013
  • Dawn to arrange User Group for Procurement Office staff
  • Dawn to arrange developer access to Dev version of Polopoly