Report for May 2017

CSG010 (In Year)

Sport & Exercise Replacement Servers

Category:Discretionary (Sponsor funded)

 Milestones

RAG Status : AMBER

Report by David Watters for May 2017

Achievements in Last Period

• Final updates to deployment checklist
• Agreement to close project

Issues and Risks

• Request from vendor to make changes to reporting server

Next Steps

• Deploy requested change from vendor
• Finalise project completion and close project

RAG Commentary : 

Project status is AMBER. This because the closure has been delayed because of a request from one of the vendors to make changes to the new reporting server.

CSG011

Totara Pilot

Category: Discretionary (Sponsor funded)

 Milestones

RAG Status : GREEN

Report by Ben Armstrong for May 2017

Achievements this period

• Single sign-on/EASE integration successfully completed
• Site design completed with positive feedback from user group
• Bulk upload of more than 200 training courses completed by supplier
• System workflow and functionality updates completed
• System Administrator training delivered to the administrators for the pilot
• Specification drafted for automated feed for staff joiners, changes and leavers sent to DTI Change Manager for API requests
• Specification drafted for Event Booking integration feasibility study

Issues

• No central system administrator in place to co-ordinate system administrators for pilot - to be discussed with project sponsor

• Support arrangements for pilot still to be formally agreed and set up - follow up required with project sponsor regarding use of a functional account in UniDesk

• Bulk upload of courses does not populate all course related information, e.g. URLs - system administrators to review and edit course records

Next Steps

• Application and Data Architecture (ADA) document to be drafted
• Training guides for users (to be produced by supplier)
• Kick off technical feasibility/specification (with related cost estimate) to integrate the UoE Event Booking application with Totara LMS, with integration of courses and booking process
• Finalise internal course catalogue - system administrators to review/amend
• Work with DTI Change Manager to validate API request
• Agree internal support arrangements (e.g. UniDesk group)
• Complete EqIA
• Launch pilot

CSG012

ESPA

Category: Discretionary (Sponsor funded)

 Milestones

RAG Status : GREEN

Report by Nicholas Graham for May 2017        

Achievements this period

• UX workshops delivered.
• Contract resource identified and recruited to support analysis and discovery.
• Back-end discovery and analysis begun.
• Project brief (planning) re-approved.  

Issues

• None.

Next Steps

• Project brief planning milestone completed.
• Analysis & discovery completed.
• Transformation of UX and investigation products into product backlogs completed.                                                                                                                                                                                   

CSG007 (In-year)

Learning and Development Requirements for CSG

Category:Discretionary (Sponsor funded)