Report for December 2019

OCS Project Management is a hardware inventory system, currently being used successfully by CAHSS to maintain accurate records of hardware and monitor end-of-life models.  ISG does not offer a wider service for this.  Before the CSCE project starts, the OCS server upgrade has to be completed. This project is set to be initiated in January 2020 as SC017 Deployment of OCS in CSE.

The Grouper project will be a cross-college project.  The project will delegate the definition of groups to college and school staff, whilst Grouper will continue to be supported as a service by IS Applications. This project is set to be initiated in January 2020 as SC016 Delegated Access to Grouper  

Other project proposals will be discussed with a view to either initiating further projects or keeping projects in the pipeline, for example a proposal to implement accessibility enhancements to the STACK application.

The start of year budget for the CSE portfolio/programme for 2019/20 is set at 165 days from core allocation; this breaks down as 15 days for programme/portfolio management and 150 days for the college ring fence allocation.

An additional 10 days each from the other two College portfolios for a contribution to the Grouper project increases the current programme budget to 185 days.

• Ongoing projects from session 18/19 have been allocated days from this session's college ring fence allocation as detailed below:
  • SCE014 has been allocated 20 days for 19/20 to complete the project
  • SCE015 has been allocated 58 days for 19/20 to complete the project in the 84 day budget
• From the 19/20 college project proposals, the following projects are to be initiated with a starting budget as follows:
  • OCS Project Management - 20 days
  • Grouper - 40 days (20 days from CSE allocation, and 10 days each from the other two College portfolios)
  • 32 days unallocated