Report for July 2014

 AP34-025

eRecruitment Phase 2 (Redeployment and Talent Pool)

Funded

Planning - October 2014

Delivery - July 2015

RAG Status

AMBER

Plan

Project will now not start until October 2014 at the earliest, project plan will need to be reviewed and replanned with discussions with User Group and Project Board. 

Dependencies

HRS077

Compliance

Report by Steph Ruthven for July 2014

Achievements in last period

• First 3 HR reports ready for testing
• Agreement to not peer test within IS, handing straight to HR for acceptance testing

Issues

• Milestones to be re-planned for the remaining effort in 2014/15. AMBER status reflects that this replanning is in progress but not completed.

Next Steps 

• Deploy 3 HR reports to live
• Re-estimate and plan remaining year activity

HRS078 (AP34-024)

Moving eRecruitment database to New Infrastructure

Compliance

Report by Anne Mathison for July 2014

Achievements this period 

• Completed HR Acceptance testing
• Down time agreed with HR and Supplier (started Sun 27-Jul afternoon and continued to schedule 28-29 July, with system being made available 1/2 was though 29th afternoon)
• Resolved remaining issues from Test Migration
• Finalised completed Technical Architecture Document including the Operations Document
• Migrated to LIVE
• Supporting Live Deployment
• Jump start issues resolved
• Programme Manager obtained project budget of 100 days

Issues

• None
• (Increase in estimate with WIS for approval on 8/08, assumed Green RAG status)

Next steps

• Support Live deployment until Deployment Sign Off
• Completrihg JIRA information)
• Prepare Closure document
• Complete Closure Document
• Take out old database instance (required as the old existing servers are now at end of life)

HRS079

Funded

Report by Nikki Stuart for July 2014 

Achievements this period 

1. Funding confirmed for 14/15 patching with caveat that days to be used by end September

2. Milestones replanned and resources secured for AE and RTI functional patches

3. Autoenrolement patch applied to DEV without issue

Outstanding Issues

N/A

Next steps

1. Confirm acceptance of AE patching in TEST

2. Progress RTI Patching to DEV and TEST

3. Undertake UAT for AE and RTI patches

4. Apply both patches to LIVE

5. Deployment and Closure

HRS080

Funded

Report by Nikki Stuart for July 2014

1. Succesful Applicant interface update delivered to TEST however testing identified an issue. Further conflict with HESA has meant that this issue remains outstanding and will milestones will need to be replanned. 

Successful Applicant interface continued to be impacted with a resource conflict to HR HESA

1. resolve issue with successful applicant interface and progress to TEST and LIVE

2. Replan remaining milestones
3. Deployment sign off 
4. Closure sign off

HRS081

Migrate Oracle HR & Payroll Database to new Infrastructure

Compliance

Current milestones:

RAG Status:

AMBER

Report by Nikki Stuart (for David Watters) for July 2014

Achievements in Last Period

• Initial project discussion held to review risk that project cannot complete by November to allow the Annual Maintenance project to start
• Resources secured to start preparatory work immediately in August following competion of the HRS078 eRecruitment Database migration

Issues

• Continued unavailability of colleagues to discuss planning because of issues with HRS078

Next Steps

• Prepare and finalise project brief
• Commence preparatory work for migration

HRS082

HR HESA Staff Return 13/14

Compliance

Report by Anne Mathison for July 2014

Achievements this period

• Supported  Acceptance testing
• Achieved Acceptance Milestone
• Completed the required project documentation
• Achieved Deployed to Live Milestone

Issues

• None

• (Increase in estimate with WIS for approval 8/08, assumed Green Rag status)

Next steps

• Support  Live and any Bug Fixes
• Complete any required deployments
• Deploy to Live as required

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

HRS076

eRecruitment Efficiencies Review

Report by Dawn Nicholls

Project closure was approved on 4th June

Completion Report can be found at https://www.projects.ed.ac.uk/project/hrs076/completion_report

HRS075 (AP34-021)

HR & Payroll Annual Maintenance 13/14

Report by Anne Mathison

Project Closure was achieved as planned on 22 July 2014

Completion report can be found at: https://www.projects.ed.ac.uk/project/hrs075/completion_report