Report for December 2013

 AP34-025

eRecruitment Phase 2 (Redeployment and Talent Pool)

Funded

Planning - April 2014

Delivery - January 2015

RAG Status

GREEN

Plan

Business Consultations are running through to end July. This project cannot start until clear agreement has been reached on how to proceed.

The eRecruitment Project Board has requested that the eRecruitment team review the high level plan for Phase 2 and the functionality of the next few releases of eRecruitment to confirm a plan for the January Project Board.

Dependencies

Redeployment Business Consultations complete and policy decisions agreed with all stakeholders

AP34-023

HR & Payroll Reporting Tool

Compliance

Plan

Overall project requires to be scoped with the initial work to focus on the Pensions reports. 

Dependencies

AP34-022

HESA Staff Return 13/14

Compliance

Plan

Dependencies

HESA have indicated that as the changes for 12/13 were substantial that changes for 13/14 will be minimal. This will not be certain until HESA release details of any required changes. 

AP34-024

Moving HR Databases (R12 /eRecruitment) to New Infrastructure

Compliance

Plan

Head of Production Management (IS Apps) has indicated that this Oracle HR & Payroll migration should be completed before the Family pack patching for HR & Payroll Annual Maintenance 13/14. However, it has been agreed that the risk to the Tax Year End patching is to great and the migration will now start in March with the LIVE environment to be migrated early summer. 

Dependencies

eRecruitment migration will need to be coordinated with Core should they need to undertake any updates to the application configuration. 

HRS075 (AP34-021)

Report by Anne Mathison for December 13

 Achievements this period

• Investigated the work required for the Phase 1 Design/Planning (Pre-Requisite Patches)
• Both TEST and DEV Clones were taken from HRLIVE on the 26-Nov-13 
• Clone issue resolved in DEV on 5-Dec-13
  • Clone of DEV complete 6-Dec-13
• Clone of LIVE complete 12-Dec-13
• Phase 1 Dev Patching Complete and Signed off
• Phase 1 Test Patching  in Test has been done and is ready for Customer Acceptance Testing in January

Issues

• None

 Next steps

• Phase 1 TEST Patching ready for Customer Acceptance Testing - Complete and Signed off
• Phase 1 LIVE patching to be deployed 30-31st Jan ready for sign off on 3rd Feb

HRS076

Report by Dawn Nicholls for December 2013

Achievements this period

•  The draft Project Brief and associated logs have been drawn up, though the formal sign-off has been delayed by the festive holidays

Issues

• None at present 

Next steps

•  Development and launch of online questionnaire

For further information please see the project journal 

HRS074 & AP23-053

Staff Development Procurement and Implementation

Report by Nikki Stuart

It was agreed with HR that both the Staff Development Procurement and Implementation projects should be withdrawn. A revised proposal will be submitted during annual planning 13/14 which may cover a revised scope. 

HRS072 (AP23-005)

Oracle HR & Payroll Annual Patching 2012/13

Report by Anne Mathison

Project Closure was agreed in November 2013;

Completion Report for HRS072 Closure Milestone Review

HRS071 (AP23-006 )

HR HESA Staff Return 12/13

Report by Nikki Stuart

Project Closure was agreed in December 2013; 

Completion Report can be found at https://www.projects.ed.ac.uk/project/HRS071/completion_report 

HRS073

eRecruitment Phase 1b

Report by Nikki Stuart

Project Closure was agreed in December 2013; 

Completion Report can be found at https://www.projects.ed.ac.uk/project/hrs073/completion_report