Report for May 2014

 AP34-025

eRecruitment Phase 2 (Redeployment and Talent Pool)

Funded

Planning - July 2014

Delivery - May 2015

RAG Status

GREEN

Plan

Project Board agreed to delay Phase 2 until after the completion of the database migration, exepected July 2014. 

Dependencies

HRS075 (AP34-021)

Report by Anne Mathison for May 2014

Achievements this period

• Phase 3 Milestones withdrawn as agreed
• P60 to TEST
• Manual Business Workaround completed for May Payroll (The Direct Earnings patch was handled manually)
• P60 to LIVE
• HR Global in Dev completed successfully
• New Direct Earnings patch + HR Global + oracle fix applied to DEV (DEA1)

Issues

• Although plan agreed for DEA, problems have already surfaced moving to TEST
  • call has been raised with Oracle end of day 4-June SR 3-8798535048
  • discussion now taking place re a refresh of TEST (last refresh of TEST was Feb)
  • contingency may be a manual solution again, but will depend on numbers

Next steps

• Plan agreed for the Direct Earnings Attachment changes (DEA2) (agreed 2-Jun)
• New Direct Earnings patch + HR Global + oracle bug fix (DEA1) to Test (plan 4-June)
  • Payroll Testing out DEA1 (plan 5-6 June)
• DEA2 implementation plan patch to DEV (plan 4-Jun)
• DEA2 to TEST (plan 9-Jun)
  • Payroll Testing out DEA2 (plan 9-11 June)
  • DEA1 followed by DEA2 patch to LIVE (plan 12-Jun)
• Project Closure 

HRS076

Report by Dawn Nicholls for May 2014

Achievements this period

• Feedback from eRecruitment Project Board and User Groups received and incorporated into draft review paper
• Final version of review paper deliver to HR for distribution

Issues

•  None

Next steps

• Project closure

Further information on project activities can be seen in the project journal 

HRS077

Compliance

Report by Steph Ruthven for May 2014

Achievements in last period

• Decision made to use APEX as reporting solution
• Business Analysis completed

Issues

• Decision to use APEX instead of BI Suite escalated to WIS

Next Steps 

• Build

HRS078 (AP34-024)

Moving eRecruitment database to New Infrastructure

Compliance

Report by Anne Mathison for May 2014

Achievements this period 

• New Project Milestones have been agreed with IS Apps, Customer and Supplier
• Technical decisions progressed and project now moving forward with the DEV migration
• All milestones have been replanned
• For further information please see the notes below:
  • 27-May migration progress meeting notes

 Issues

• Discussions with CORE still required
• Revised estimate is over budget and has not been agreed within the HRS Programme, Programme Manager looked into

Next steps

• Revise and complete Technical Architecture Document
• Complete DEV migration testing as well as any development fixes
• Complete test implementation document
• Migrate to TEST
• Begin Customer Acceptance Testing

HRS079

Funded

Report by Nikki Stuart for May 2014

1. Payroll and Pension Support Manager confirmed that final configuration for RTI and AE are coniguration changes and she expects to be able to complete thsi without IS Apps input

2. RTI and AE Patches have been identified and although not mandatory will delivery functional enhancements and bug fixes which will ease the full implementation of RTI and AE

Milestones to be planned following confirmation that clone and additional patching work to be completed with the remaining effort for this project

1. Plan requested Clone and additional RTI and AE patching work

2. Undertake clones

HRS080

Funded

Report by Nikki Stuart for May 2014

1. New Oracle field, BI field and API deployed to TEST
2. Testing underway

Successful Applicant interface update will not be progressed to TEST as Peer testing identified a further update. The developer is now progressing HR HESA work and this must be the priority until the HESA build is completed. 

1. Acceptance Sign off 
2. Deploy New Oracle field, BI field and API to LIVE
3. complete successful applicant build and progress to TEST and LIVE

HRS082

HR HESA Staff Return 13/14

Compliance

Report by Anne Mathison for May 2014

Achievements this period

• Project Manager assigned
• Project Website set up
• Brief approved 
• Known HESA changes estimated and analysed
• New HESA requirements received, estimated and analysed
• Known HESA changes work began

Issues

• None

Next steps

• Complete work on known HESA changes
• Initial iterative changes drip fed to Test

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