Report for January 2016

Report Date

January 2016

Achievements in Last Period​ (no report in Dec so since end Nov)

• Second developer assigned to reduce the risk of the key project milestones slipping
• Build for POs integration progressing
• Build for Users, Codes and Combinations integration in progress
• Discussions with Finance and Procurement relating to Codes and Combinations 
• New User creation process mapped with Procurement
• Draft TAD reviewed by Technology Management

Issues

• Project milestones replanned to reflect minor delays to progress on the PO build (resolved)
• Technology Management feedback was provided for the TAD. There is concern over the size and format of the overall Finance TAD, although not specific to this project this will need to be discussed further before design sign off can be formally agreed for the TAD. (ongoing)
• It has been agreed that Estates users will be trained as a priority before retraining PECOS users to be transferred to SciQuest. The decommisioning of PECOS is now planned for Oct 2016. Remaining tasks will be replanned (ongoing)

Next Steps

• Review full project plan and update
• Complete full risk review
• start Goods Receipt build
• complete Codes, Combinations and Users integration
• draft technical build and implementation documentation
• Peer testing of the PO, GR and Codes, Combinations and Users integrations. 

Milestones