Report for August 2016

Report Date
August 2016

Achievements in last period

  • A temporary solution has been deployed to Live, to allow FPM to continue to use the old, locally-hosted Bank Wizard process (Batch 4 Jira FIN108-61).  This will allow eFinancials to be re-pointed, to use the externally-hosted Bank Wizard process (Batch 4 Jira FIN108-2), once that process has been approved for Live deployment. 
  • A solution has been provided that will allow Finance to suppress the display of unwanted warning messages returned by the extenally-hosted Bank Validation in eFinancials.  This solution is currently in place in Dev and Test (Batch 4 Jira FIN108-60)
  • The Business Lead has negotiated a further 1-month extension to the internally-hosted Bank Wizard software, i.e. until the end of September.

 

Issues

The University is currently running three different versions of FPM, one in each of the three environments (Dev, Test and Live).  The version in Test has a number of faults, which will not be resolved.  Instead, the plan is to resolve all faults in the version in Dev, and for that version to be promoted into Test and Live.  The remaining two issues in Dev are:

  • Externally-hosted Bank Validation continues to fail  (Jira FIN108-2)
  • The saving of changes to Scheduled Tasks continues to fail  (Jira FIN108-26)

The supplier of FPM continues to work with the University, to provide a solution for these issues.  A solution was expected to be delivered at the end of July.  This has now been revised to the end of August.  As a result, the project will be unable to meet its planned milestones in August and September.  Revised milestones will be confirmed after the expected solution has been received from the provider.  Meanwhile, the project's Time and Overall RAG statuses are RED.

Next Steps

  • Providers to resolve Bank Validation and Scheduled Task issues in FPM
  • Apply supplier fix to suppress exception messages through Dev, Test and Live
  • eFinancials migration to external-hosting to be completed, and deployed to Live
  • Finance have signed off the supplier fix to suppress exception messages in Dev and Test (7-Sep)
  • Finance have signed off the eFinancials migration to external hosting through Dev and Test (7-Sep)
  • Plan deployment to suit Business, IS Apps and to cater for the CAB restrictions during September
  • Milestones to be re-planned for scheduling during September and Batch 4 closure in early October

 

Milestones

Milestones to be re-planned

Target date

Previous date

Milestone

Complete

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

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

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