23/06/14 Planning meeting

Meeting date - 23/06/14

Attendees - Liz Welch, Douglas Stewart, John Bannaghan, Mike McMonagle, Rhian Davies, Garry Robertson, Anne Finnan, Gordon Fornes, Mark Lang, Anne Finnan, Donna Archibald, Dawn Nicholls

Purpose - This meeting was to review the FInance projects planned for 14/15 and to agree potential start dates. We also reviewed the 14/15 projects for other programmes to determine whether there was any impact on Finance.

 

Several queries were raised for action: -

 

ProjectQueryUpdateStatus

External examiners

Does the scope for this project include any links to finance systems?Update by Dawn Nicholls 17/07/14 - Checked with the project manager, Franck Bergeret, who has confirmed that there are no plans to interface with or impact on any finance systems due to budget constraints. Examiners will be paid via current processes. email sent to Liz to confirmClosed
EUCLID upgradeAs FInancial systems have lots of interfaces with EUCLUD will this require testing resource from FIS?Update by Dawn Nicholls 17/07/14 - Checked with SASG Programme Manager and the Project Manager for this project and they confirmed it will not impact FInance as it is only a SITS application upgrade.  However, the EUCLID database upgrade project will impact Finance as this affects the STARLIVE database. The SASG team have noted this dependency and will liaise with Finance accordingly. The testing is likely to fall in Aug/Sep 2015Closed
eFin upgradeWhat is the impact of the Java security concerns raised by Stephan?

Update by Dawn Nicholls 17/07/14 - Checked with Stephan, risk assessment needed to understand the security risk and whether we need to an interim upgrade or can wait for the full upgrade in the Spring

 

Further action required