Report for November 2019

Report Date

November 2019

Achievements this period

• A workshop was held with stakeholders from Communications and Marketing, Website and Communications, Software Development and Colleges; to consider the use of Drupal as a solution and to discuss the wider vision and business requirements.
• Follow on questions have since been issued that will need to be answered by the business in order to properly assess business needs.
• Use Stories have also been written to allow a business focus on relevance and prioritisation.

Issues

• Non-availability of business resource due to strike action.

• No forward plan to compensate for loss of the Project Manager in January should project extend beyond this period (reason for reporting a RAG status of RED).

• Project milestones have been missed and need to be re-planned.

Next steps

• Raise Change Request to get project back into governance.
• Workshop scheduled for the 13th December.
• Options appraisal paper to be produced for review.