Report for July 2016

Report Date
July 2016

Achievements in last period

  • Live deployment completed for eTime - H2020 Print Preview for new Category/Tasks Types (Batch 3 Jira FIN108-13)
  • Live deployment completed for eExpenses enhancements (Batch 3b Jiras FIN108-36, FIN108-37, FIN108-38, FIN108-39, FIN108-44)
  • Deployment sign-off confirmed for Batches 1, 2, 3 and 3b
  • Project Closure confirmed for Batches 1, 2, 3 and 3b

 

Issues

Issues have still to be resolved in the migration of International Bank Validation to external hosting:

  • Finance colleagues have concerns about the warning messages returned by Bank Validation in eFinancials in Dev and Test
  • Bank Validation continues to fail in FPM in Dev and Test

The Bank Validation migration is a compliance requirement.   It is therefore not possible to close this project until a solution has been reached, and the new hosted software has been deployed to Live, for both eFinancials and FPM. 

  • The Business Lead, Programme Manager and Portfolio Manager have therefore agreed that the project may be extended into the 2016/17 Planning Year, solely to support the ongoing issues with the Bank Validation.

In accordance with this agreement, the two Bank Validation related Jiras have been moved into a new Batch 4, which will carry forward into 2016-17, to support remedial activity by Experian and ABS.  These Jiras are:

  • International Bank Validation (Phase 1) - Change of Hosting from UOE to Experian (Jira FIN108-2)
  • FPM v2.3 Configuration on Dev Environment (Jira FIN108-26)

Next Steps

  • ABS and Experian to resolve Bank Validation issues

 

Milestones

Target date

Previous date

Milestone

Complete

30-Sep-2015

30-Sep-2015

Brief approved

Yes

30-Oct-2015

30-Oct-2015

Confirm priorities; Agree batch 1 enhancements

Yes

17-Dec-2015

17-Dec-2015

Confirm priorities; Agree batch 2 enhancements

Yes

17-Dec-2015

17-Dec-2015

Complete Batch 1

Yes

22-Apr-2016

22-Apr-2016

Confirm priorities; Agree batch 3 enhancements

Yes

22-Apr-2016

22-Apr-2016

Complete Batch 2

Yes

12-Jul-2016

01-Jul-2016

Delivery of final enhancements batch

Yes

27-Jul-2016

15-Jul-2016

Deployment Sign-off Review of final enhancements batch

Yes

27-Jul-201622-Jul-2016Closure Sign-off ReviewYes

17-Aug-2016

17-Aug-2016

Batch 4 delivery

No

23-Aug-2016

23-Aug-2016

Batch 4 deployment sign-off review

No

02-Sep-2016

02-Sep-2016

Batch 4 closure

No

 

*Please note:  The red RAG status below simply denotes that the project's milestones have changed over the course of this month.  The current RAG status of all measures is GREEN. 

 

Project Status
RAG Status
Time
RED
Cost
GREEN
Scope
GREEN
Overall
RED
Change Status
Activity
Approved budget
102.0 days
Activity this month
8.0 days
Activity this year
97.0 days
Activity to date
97.0 days
Estimate to complete current year
0.0 days
Estimate to complete future years
6.0 days

Project Info

Project
FIS Essential Enhancements
Code
FIN108
Programme
Finance (FIN)
Management Office
ISG PMO
Project Manager
Emma Mcnab
Project Sponsor
Elizabeth Welch
Current Stage
Close
Status
Closed
Start Date
24-Aug-2015
Planning Date
n/a
Delivery Date
n/a
Close Date
03-Aug-2017
Programme Priority
2
Overall Priority
Normal
Category
Discretionary

Documentation