March 2016

Report Date
March 2016

Section One: Programme Commentary, RAG and Resources Update

Section Two: Projects Not Started

Section Three: Projects In Progress

Section Four: Closed or Withdrawn Projects 

Section One: Programme Commentary, RAG and Resources Update

During March

There is currently little activity being undertaken within the programme at this time;

  • The revised student feed generated through teh project ACS033 has been successfully deployed to the Live environment
  • The new project, ACS035 Booking Agent Interface has currently stalled whilst awaiting clarification of technical requirements

The overall programme budget of 7 days has now been exceeded  by 1 day and the programme manager has estimated a further 1 days effort will be required for the remainder of the year , as programme activity is now very light. Further discussions to be held with the CSG Portfolio Manager to resolve this deficit.

 

 

Section Two: Projects Not Started

 

The scheduled projects for 2015-16 are

 

Project InfoProgramme Managers Commentary

AP56-059

Delivered Catering External

Funded

Planning: June 2016

Delivery: t.b.c.

Plan

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

- project to commence in June 2016

- initial planning phase scheduled to be completed in June 2016

- delivery date to be defined

Dependencies

- totally dependant on current supplier delivering new application module or an alternative product is procured

- 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

Section Three: Projects in Progress

 

Project InfoProject Managers Commentary

ACS033

Student Application - Enhanced Student Data Feed

Discretionary

Milestones

08-Apr-2016DSOR (Delivery Sign Off)
15-Apr-2016Close

 

RAG Status

Amber

Report by Colin Forrest for March 2016

Achievements in the last period

  • We have successfully deployed the updated feed and all the teams have reported they are happy..
  • There has been no errors.

Issues

  • The number of days used will be just below 47 which is slightly above the 10% threshold of the current budget of 42.  The original budget was 50.  We will resolve the budget when closing the project.  The project is Amber because of this.

Next steps

  • Deployment sign off which is underway over email now that we have passed the 14 day threshold.
  • Closure by mid April.

ACS035 (AP56-057)

Booking Agent Interface

Funded

Milestones

Planning date 24/04 (was 11/03)

RAG Status

Amber

Report by Chris Lawford for March 2016

Achievements in Last Period

  • None

Issues

  • To date, there has been no agreement on the involvement of IS Apps Projects with the Agent booking interface project.  There have been numerous attempts to set-up an initial meeting with ACS, Kinetics - without success.

Next Steps

  • Complete project planning phase, or withdraw project. 

 

Section Four: Closed or Withdrawn Projects

 

Project InfoProject Managers Commentary
ACS034 - Uniware Cashless Catering

Project closed on 4th December 2015

Project Closure Report

AP56-056

Upgrade Kx Test Infrastructure

Project withdrawn on 4th December 2015

AP56- 058

Migration to Kx Cloud Environment 

Project withdrwan on 4th December 2015

 

Section Five: Programme Risks

DateRisk Ref.Programme RisksRag StatusRisk Owner
30/06/152

Unable to commence scheduled project Delivered Catering External

Rag Status adjusted from Red to Green after confirmation that the project is now scheduled to commence in June.

GreenClaire Barnish
05/01/163

Programme Management Budget being exceeded

Rag Status currently at Amber untill further discussions held with CSG Portfolio Manager

AmberAndrew Stewart

Section Six : Programme Meeting Minutes

 This section details the minutes from the programme meetings held in 2014-15

DateComments
16/09/15Minutes from Programme Meeting
11/11/15Minutes from Programme Meeting
02/12/15Minutes from Programme Review Meeting