Report for November 2015

CSG006 (In-year)

OPAS Migration

Category: Compliance

 Milestones

RAG Status : RED

Report by Chris Konczak for November 2015

Achievements in Last Period

• Deployment dates secured for new instance, resources booked, deployment sign off and closure meetings booked for January 2016.
• Extra budget secured

Issues

• Scope change and milestone changes for creating the new SQL Instance has pushed this project into red.

Next Steps

• Set up new SQL instance on shared server
• Deploy to live on 11/12/15
• Deployment Sign off Review in January 2016
• Closure in January 2016

CSG007 (In-year)

Learning and Development Requirements for CSG

Category: Discretionary

 Milestones

RAG Status : AMBER

Report by Ben Armstrong for November 2015

• Viewed demo of EQMS product for those managing staff learning and development
• Held call with Leeds University to discuss their experience of working with the supplier of the EQMS product
• Viewed demo of Events Booking Admin application arranged for those involved in delivering training
• Collated feedback from EQMS demo and sent questions to supplier

Issues

• The proposed project closure date (27th November) passed but the project will now aim to close by the end of January to complete the actions agreed with the Project Sponsor and the IS Apps CSG Portfolio Manager

Next Steps

• Expand target process maps to include training delivery process flow and training needs flow
• Follow up with supplier for answers to queries from EQMS demo and circulate responses to stakeholders
• Ask supplier for another public sector contact to comment on the EQMS Training Records Manager module
• Send details from call with Leeds University (and with additional contact) to project stakeholders for review
• Summarise market research on learning and development products, and send to Procurement Office
• Speak to colleagues in HR to form view of numbers of potential system licences across support groups

CSG008 (AP56-045)

RETAIN Enhancements for mass-based substances

Category : Compliance

Milestones

RAG Status : AMBER

Report by Dawn Nicholls for November 2015

Achievements this period

• The new mass-based (nuclear) RETAIN functionality went live on 4th November
• The 2-week post-deployment maintenance period was completed.  Fixes & small changes delivered during this period are documented at https://www.projects.ed.ac.uk/project/csg008/page-2
• Additional funding for BI/reporting was agreed with Health & Safety and agreed development work took place
• Draft completion report produced
• Project completion agreed with the caveat of successful deployment of final BI/reporting which is planned for w/c 7th Dec

Issues

• Delayed completion date resulting from additional BI/reporting and final fixes

Next steps

• Live deployment & sign-off of BI/reporting changes
• Formal closure

CSG009 (In-year)

RIR Systems Review

Category: Sponsor Funded

Milestones

RAG Status: AMBER

Report by Dawn Nicholls for November 2015

Achievements this period

• A series of interviews have taken place with key stakeholders from RIR. ERI and EDINA

Issues

• Issues securing confirmed interview dates due to previous diary commitments.  This will impact the delivery & closure milestones by about 2 weeks which pushes them into the University shutdown period.

Next steps

• Final interviews to be conducted
• Draft technical report and analysis summary papers to be produced & shared with Project Sponsor

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Category: Discretionary/Compliance/Funded