Project journal

Title Description Author Post date
w/c 2nd March 2020
  • Project initiation meeting with project sponsor
  • Project website created 
  • Background analysis objectives prepared by Edinburgh Innovations and circulated 
Andrew Stewart 06-Mar-2020
w/c 9th March 2020
  • Meeting with Business School to determine requirements going forward 
  • Project formally approved by WIS on 13/03/20 with a budget of 30 days.  As part of the approval, the project name was changed as noted in the Change Control Log - Issue 1
Andrew Stewart 13-Mar-2020
w/c 16th March 2020
  • Created a Teams environment for the project 
  • Commenced project brief
Andrew Stewart 17-Mar-2020
w/c 23rd March 2020
  • Project Brief 
    • Completed first draft of the project brief
    • Circulated to the project team to review - 24/03/20
    • Meeting held to review the project brief - 25/03/20
  • Further meeting held with Head of Enterprise Services on 26/03/20
Andrew Stewart 24-Mar-2020
w/c 30/03/20
  • Project Planning
    • Brief updated and re-circulated 
    • Project plan updated 
    • project estimate generated 
  • Training 
    • Meeting scheduled for 07/04 with IS Digital Skills
Andrew Stewart 09-Apr-2020
w/c 06/04/20
  • Meetings
    • Project Team meeting held on 06/04/20
    • Training meeting held with IS Digital Skills on 07/04/20
  • Project Planning 
    • Further updates incorporated into the Project Brief, Plan and Estimate
    • Project Brief signed off by Head of Enterprise Architecture
Andrew Stewart 09-Apr-2020
w/c 13/04/20
  • Weekly project team meeting held 
  • SharePoint site consolidation 
  • Training template documentation shared with the project team 
  • Business Functional requirements document shared with the project team
  • Communications drafted for the Tech Transfer team
  • Project brief signed-off by Service Management
Andrew Stewart 14-Apr-2020
w/c 20/04/20
  • Project Team meeting held 
  • Business Requirements for Tech Transfer team completed
  • Documentation circulated outlining the differences between IRM Views and Reports
  • Training 
    • Initial training guides circulated 
    • Collaborate demonstration scheduled for Monday 11th May
Andrew Stewart 21-Apr-2020
w/c 27/04/20
  • Project brief formally signed-off by the project team and submitted to WIS
Andrew Stewart 27-Apr-2020
w/c 04/05/20
  • Business Requirements
    • As part of defining the business requirements, a further tab, namely; "working (reporting requirements) has been added to the spreadsheet to consolidate reporting requirements 
  • IRM Configuration 
    • Sandbox development on-going 
    • Arrangements to be made to enable early engagement by the Tech Transfer team to view 
  • Training 
    • Arrangements in place for Collaboration demonstration on Monday 
  • Project Governance 
    Andrew Stewart 07-May-2020
    w/c 11th May 2020
    • Weekly project conference call
    • IRM Sandbox
      • configuration on-going
      • TT team demonstration 
    • On-going view of reporting requirements
    • Training 
      • Collaborate demonstration
      • Commenced development of training content and user guide 
    Andrew Stewart 18-May-2020
    w/c 18th May 2020
    • IRM Configuration 
      • on-going 
    • UAT Workshops 
      • Due to the on-going configuration work, there will be the requirement to delay the first workshop by one week.  As a result 
        • UAT -1: w/c 01/06/20
        • UAT-2: w/c 08/08/20
        • UAT-3: w/c 15/06/20
    Andrew Stewart 16-Jun-2020
    w/c 25th May 2020
    • IRM Configuration 
      • on going 
    • Reporting 
      • On going discussions regarding the TT Team requirement to generate local reports - which is currently outwith the Service Definition Document (SDD).  This requirement will form a recommendation from the project with regards to amending the SDD
      • The development of the reports has commenced 
      • The SalesForce Report tool has been enabled on the Sandbox
    • User Training 
      • Dates have been scheduled 
    • UAT
      Andrew Stewart 16-Jun-2020
      w/c 1st June 2020
      • IRM Configuration 
        • on-going 
      • Reports 
        • Draft overview of report with associated filters circulated 
      • Inventor Portal 
        • Outline design prepared 
        • Noted that
          • The Portal would now only be required to be used by the academics as the TT Team will undertake their admin tasks in SalesForce
          • The Portal is intended to be usable by Academics with no training or knowledge of the Technology Disclosure process
      Andrew Stewart 16-Jun-2020
      w/c 8th June 2020
      • IRM Configuration 
        • on-going 
      • Report Generation 
        • on-going 
      • User Acceptance Testing 
        • UT2 with TH completed 
        • Offline testing has been on-going but further concerns raised regarding 
          • the outstanding Inventor Portal
          • incomplete IRM configuration 
          • resource availability required for testing 
          • data migration to live 
          • verification of new reports given the limited data set on the Sandbox 
      Andrew Stewart 16-Jun-2020
      w/c 15th June 2020
      • IRM Configuration 
        • on-going 
        • development of Inventor Portal scheduled to be completed on 17/06
      • Training 
        • It has been agreed to reschedule training once the IRM configuration has been completed 
      Andrew Stewart 16-Jun-2020