March Report

Report Date

March 2016

Achievements in Last Period

• UAT commenced and being tested by Moodle Service team
• A number of JIRAS have been raised and resolved / retested 

Issues

• UAT start was delayed as there was issue with MOODLE Test environment this was investigated by Moodle Service team and resolved by Application Management by completing a database restore
• A number of JIRAS have been raised due to quality of data in IDM Test and impacted by LDAP sync job not having been run on Test environment by ITI for a number of months this has caused further delays to testing also Business lead also on annual leave
• Grouper Permissions issue highlighted that test users all require Sys Admin access to view folders and will impact users in Live environment. A workaround has been proposed by Service Management. A problem record has been raised for investigations into the upgraded version of Grouper to understand permissions issue.
• Review completed for impacts of delays on project budget additional 13 days required to complete project
• Revised milestones proposed to Project Sponsor, Programme Manager and Business Lead however due to concerns around data quality and progress out with projects for changes to Course code and Grouper concerns Project Sponor has placed a halt to UAT and proposed milestones not approved. Meeting being held with Enterprise Architect, Service Management and project team including Project Sponsor on 7th April to discuss way forward.
• A further issue has been encountered with the MOODLE Test environment which is being investigated by the Service team, therefore the testing team have had to use a workaround to continue testing

Next Steps

• UAT to recommence, complete and sign off Acceptance
• Deployment Checklist
• Preparation for deployment – checklist, service alert etc.
• Deployment to Live

The project status is RED due to the UAT being placed on hold