Report for September 2018

 MVM302: Compute and High Performance Compute Strategy - RAG Status: AMBER

Report by Barry Horne

Achievements this period

• Continued drafting the strategy document.
• Survey distributed to Researchers

Issues

• Getting enough time to proceed with project is proving challenging with current work load.

Next Steps

• Create and circulate draft strategy document.
• Create generic case studies based on results of questionnaire.

MVM305: Flexible Server hosting  - RAG Status: GREEN

Report by Barry Horne

Achievements this period

• No achievements this month

Issues

• Difficulty making time to continue this project due to other on going work.
• PM leaving post in November 2018

Next Steps

• PM to engage with potential project stakeholders and circulate draft project brief.

• PM to arrange initial stakeholder meeting, with view to sign-off project brief and initiate project.

MVM306: Network IT improvements - RAG Status: CLOSED

Report by Jens Brincker

Achievements this period

• Closure report and recommendation report has been reviewed and approved by the project team

Issues

• None

Next Steps

• Project Closed

MVM308: Research computing induction - RAG Status: GREEN

Report by Paul De'Ath

Achievements this period

• Project unsuspended

Issues

• N/A

Next steps

• Re-establish the project brief, set new milestones, review and update all risks and re-animate the Project

MVM314: SEBI - Data Collection and Modelling - RAG Status: SUSPENDED

Report by Colin Watt

Achievements this period

• None, project is currently suspended

Next Steps

• Status to be reviewed in October

MVM315: REACH - RAG Status: AMBER

Report by Jamie Thin

Achievements this period

• New date for final deployment to LIVE agreed - Wed 3-Oct

• Back-end REACH Admin

  • No outstanding issues

• Handover to Business owner & IS Production Support

  • Operation Level Agreement (OLA) -  approved by Susan Buckingham
  • Handover to  IS Production management has been completed by project team

Issues

• Special CAB did not approve the deploy to LIVE during the change freeze - this has delayed project closure
  • The deploy to LIVE has now been approved by Go CAB for Wed 3-Oct

Next Steps

• IS LTW WGI complete PHP / Drupal Core upgrade in LIVE  on Wed 3-Oct
• IS LTW WGI team document solution for Drupal core updates and  handover to business user in AUKCAR
• Close project