August 2015

Student Application - Enhanced Student Data Feed

Project continued from 2014-15

UniWare Cashless Catering

Project continued from 2014-15

Balance Row - Sponsored Funded

equates to 20% for sponsor funded projects approved for 2015-16

AP56-056

Upgrade Kx Test Infrastructure

Funded

Planning: October 2015

Delivery: March 2016

Plan

This project has been declared as part of the annual planning process .

- project to commence in October 2015

- initial planning phase scheduled to be completed in November 2015

- delivery date scheduled for March 2016

Dependencies

-  will require a large commitment from Accommodation Services team to oversee user acceptance testing

- will require a significant input from IS Applications Development Technology team in preparing the new infrastructure

- requirement to understand any potential impacts if a Kx upgrade is scheduled through this period

AP56-057

Booking Agent Interface

Funded

Planning: September 2015

Delivery: February 2016

Plan

This project has been declared as part of the annual planning process .

- project to commence in September 2015

- initial planning phase scheduled to be completed in October 2015

- delivery date scheduled for February 2016

Dependencies

- largely dependant on supplier delivering module

- will require a large commitment from Accommodation Services team to oversee user acceptance testing

- will require input from IS Applications Development Technology team to assist with systems integration

AP56-058

Migration of Kx to Cloud Environment

Funded

Planning: January 2016

Delivery: July 2016

Plan

This project has been declared as part of the annual planning process .

- project to commence in January 2016

- initial planning phase scheduled to be completed in January 2016

- delivery date scheduled for July 2016

Dependencies

- totally dependant on supplier hosting capability

- will require a large commitment from Accommodation Services team to oversee user acceptance testing

- will require input from IS Applications Development Technology team to assist with systems integration and performance testing

AP56-059

Delivered Catering External

Funded

Planning: January 2016

Delivery: May 2016

Plan

This project has been declared as part of the annual planning process .

- project to commence in January 2016

- initial planning phase scheduled to be completed in January 2016

- delivery date scheduled for May 2016

Dependencies

- totally dependant on supplier delivering new application module

- will require a large commitment from Accommodation Services team to oversee user acceptance testing

- will require input from IS Applications Development Technology team to assist with systems integration

ACS033

Student Application - Enhanced Student Data Feed

Discretionary

Milestones

RAG Status

Green

Report by Colin Forrest for August 2015

Achievements in the Last Period

• Our plan to deploy this project in January 2016 remains and the final small piece of feed configuration will be completed by Student Systems (SSP) during September.
• Once our updates are complete we will suspend work on the project until November.

Issues

• Other than the duration extension which has been unavoidable the only issue is that the TEST and LIVE systems would not match for a longer than ideal period due to their differing feeds.  Our changes have been rolled back during other project work so we will have this in mind when making our final updates to TEST during September.

Next steps

• We will complete the minor development to the TEST feed so it is prepared for UAT in October.

ACS034

UniWare Cashless Catering

Discretionary

Milestones

RAG Status

Blue

Report by Andrew Stewart for August 2015

Achievements in the last period

• Deployment sign-off has been approved by both the business partner and IS Applications Production Management

• Requested estimate and timescales from  Development with regards the work to de-comission Counter Solutions processes

Issues

• An issue was discovered wheerby the links to the previous supplier of the cashless catering system had not been switched off by either the University or the supplier. Whilst this has been subsequently switched-off, a number of individuals were abel to add credit to the redundant system
• The programme owner has questioned the increase of effort to implment the solution and this wil be discussed at the fortcoming programme meeting

Next steps

• Fully decommission the previous cashless catering activities on all three environments of Dev, Test and Live
• Prepare the closure report
• Project closure