Organisation
Work/Task Breakdown
This project will be split into 2 distinct workstreams:
1. Service Readiness - This workstream will focus on all the associated ongoing work and projects that require elements to be in place for the Start of Term. This workstream will deal with the monitoring, reporting and communications to ensure that everything required is in place or any issues are escalated to SLT.
2. Welcome Week - This workstream will focus on the tasks required for the successful delivery of Welcome week. This will include IT connectivity, Bank Letters and Card photo uploads and delivery.
Resources, Skills and Costs
Stage |
Activity |
Planning |
Produce Project Brief |
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Agree Estimates |
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Planning review/sign off Project Brief |
Execute Plan |
Communication Plan Draft |
Welcome Week Work Stream
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Establish a Communications Plan | |
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Agree staff contacts and involvement from IS divisions, University, EUSA |
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Confirm tools and processes (collating information, reviewing, regular reporting, communications) |
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Establish List of collated information |
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Perform regular reviews |
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Regular reporting and communication |
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Escalation of gaps in information for attention |
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Review Execution |
Lessons Learned |
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Closure |
Write closure report |
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Project Closure |
Resources, Skills and Costs
The project is estimated at 75 days broken down as follows:
Project Management
- 75 days of project management effort split between this and the next financial year. There may be the requirement for some Business Analysis with additional resources from project services intern. The intern's time will not be recorded to the project.
The 75 days will be split into the following financial years:
- FY 21/22 : 45 Days
- FY 22/23 : 30 Days
Student Helper
The project intends to recruit a student to work part-time (up to 15 hours per week) from April/MAy to June then full time until the end of week 1.
Financial Budget
In 2022/23 the project used a budget of £36,139. This covered all the external costs for Welcome Week expect staff costs including student helpers:
- cost of licences
- giveaways for students
- experiential activities for students
A similar budget should be secured for this year's project.
Project Governance
There are several layers of Governance for this project. The project will adhere to the standard Apps Review governance. In addition, the project will report on a monthly basis from April to July to ISG SLT and from August to the start of teaching on a weekly basis to ISG SLT.
Project Stakeholders
Name | Area | Role |
Adam Wadee | ISG Applications Project Services | ISGOTH Programme Manager Name |
Alex Carter | ISG Applications Service Management | IS Applications Service Management Representative (Project Team Member) |
Alister Mayze | ISG User Services Help Services | Help Services Section Manager |
Barry Croucher | ISG User Services Directorate Help Services | Business Lead |
Cheryl Hutton | Residence Life | Residence Life Representative |
Colin Pritchard | Estates Head of Help Services | Estates Senior Representative |
Colm Harmon | Principal's Office | Vice Principal (Students) |
Craig Robertson | ISG Corporate | Facilities Operations Manger |
Lesley Greer (TBC) | ISG LTW Learning Spaces Technology | LST Representative (Project Team Member) |
Gavin McLachlan | Information Services CIO | Senior Management Stakeholder |
Gosia Such | ISG User Services | Director of User Services (Project Team) |
Graeme Wood | ISG IT Infrastructure | ITI Representative (Project Team Member) |
ISG Senior Leadership Team (ISG SLT) | Information Services | Project Governance |
Kevin Brogan | ISG Learning, Teaching and Web | IS LTW Representative (Project Team Member) |
Lisa McDonald | ISG User Services | ITIL Manager |
Mark Ritchie | ISG Applications Project Services | Senior Management Stakeholder (Project Services) |
Marshall Dozier | ISG University Library and Collections | L&UC Representative (Project Team Member) |
Neil Bruce | ISG User Services | Project Sponsor (Project Team Member) |
Paul Gorman | ISG User Services Directorate | Deputy Head of Help Services |
Shaun Brunett | ISG User Services Directorate | Head of ISG Communications (Project Team Member) |
Stuart MacLeod | Estates (Interim Head of Construction) | Estates Rep for large projects (Project Team Member) |
Suran Perera | ISG Applications | (Acting) Head of Production Management |
TBC | Student Induction Team | Student Induction Manager |
TBC | ISG User Services Directorate | Business Lead |
Tommy Angus | Estates (Head of Small Projects) | Estates Rep for small projects (updates will be sent through Euan Murray) |
Victoria Cunto | ISG User Services Directorate | Communications Officer |