Project journal

Title Description Author Post date
Third Business Stakeholder meeting notes available

The BOXI Upgrade project has had it's third meeting with the business stakeholders, at this meeting there was discussion on the new licences and software, the migration of personal reports and a general update on the project progress. Meeting notes and presentation are available for anyone interested in the Business Objects upgrade. https://www.projects.ed.ac.uk/project/its092/page-5

Craig Middlemass 09-Jul-2013
Weekly Project Team Meeting - 25 June 2013 and Sponsor Meeting Notes

Work completed last week

Craig Middlemass 28-Jun-2013
Weekly Project Meeting - 4 June 2013

Work completed last week

  • Investigation into Custom SQL has reached completion there is still an issue saving any custom SQL, Craig M to investigate further and report back to project sponsors
  • Circulated migration plan for completion by business areas
  • Circulated agreed default user setting to business stakeholders
  • Confirmed selection of training material to be purchased - Eye Academy offering

Issues Encountered

Craig Middlemass 04-Jun-2013
Weekly Project Meeting - 21 May 2013

Work completed last week

  • Peter Jackson's time has been secured to help investigate the EASE authentication issue for next week
  • Issue with some user groups not migrating properly has been resolved - was due to a default setting in the migration tool that has now been updated
  • PM and Dev Tech reviewed ASTA bookings to bring forward load testing

Issues Encountered

Craig Middlemass 21-May-2013
Weekly Project Meeting - 14 May 2013

Work completed last week

Craig Middlemass 14-May-2013
ITS092 - Weekly Team Meeting 7 May 2013 - Draft

Work completed last week

  • Design Review complete and signed off

Issues Encountered

Craig Middlemass 07-May-2013
Senior Supplier / Project Manager Meeting 14th May 2013

1. Licence Discussion

David Smyth and Simon Marsden are working on the licence dispute with SAP and this has a target resolution date of nth June 2013.  The outcome of which will be complete resolution, breakdown impacting the upgrade and potential constrained continued use of the licences.  2 new risks will be created to cover these outcomes:

Craig Middlemass 14-May-2013
Weekly Update Meeting - 30 April 2013

Work completed last week

  • Removed EASE authentication from Dev to avoid log out issue
  • Raise purchase order for Influential Software to come on site to resolve EASE issue - Complete
  • Once dev is available carry out a small scale migration into Dev - Complete

Issues Encountered

Craig Middlemass 30-Apr-2013
ITS092 - Second Business Stakeholder Meeting

The BOXI Upgrade project has had it's second meeting with the business stakeholders, at this meeting a demonstration of the new R4 Dev Environment was given along with a discussion on the training, communications and governance for the project. Meeting notes and presentation are available for anyone interested in the Business Objects upgrade. https://www.projects.ed.ac.uk/project/its092/page-5

Craig Middlemass 06-May-2013
Senior Supplier / Project Manager Meeting 29th April 2013

1. Stakeholder Management

Director of Apps very posiive on current direction for project but felt it important that various BI/MI related initiatives are joined up so that everyone understands what's going on and works together to maximise benefit. Current projects/initiatives include:

Mark Ritchie 29-Apr-2013
ITS092 - Monthly Sponsor Meeting April - Draft

Discussion Points

Craig Middlemass 23-Apr-2013
Weekly Team Meeting - 18 April 2013

Work completed last week

  • Escalated EASE issue with SAP, need to go via Support Supplier - CM to escalate with Sponsors
  • System Design Specification has gone through internal review and will be release shortly
  • Virtual Machine for Test has been ordered
  • Presentation to Finance Liason Officers on BOXI and the upgrade

Issues Encountered

Craig Middlemass 23-Apr-2013
Weekly Team Meeting - 9 April 2013

Work completed last week

  • Configuration of the Dev Environment is ongoing, so far all Universes have been migrated with only 1 issue on a Finance user group
  • Ongoing investigation into EASE authentication, need to pin down the support arrangements and what it covers
  • Schedule up meetings with Senior Supplier - complete

Issues Encountered

Craig Middlemass 10-Apr-2013
Weekly Team Meeting - 2 April 2013

Work completed last week

  • Dev Build is complete barring an issue with EASE authentication - deadline set for Wednesday to switch back to local auth if EASE is failing
  • Agreement reached to give the project team named user accounts so that they can trial different set up of user preferences
  • Hold first business stakeholder meeting - Complete and well recieved (see notes)

Issues Encountered

Craig Middlemass 02-Apr-2013
ITS092 - First Business Stakeholder Meeting

The BOXI Upgrade project has completed its initial meeting with the business stakeholders, the meeting was well recieved.  Meeting notes and presentation are available for anyone interested in the Business Objects upgrade. https://www.projects.ed.ac.uk/project/its092/page-5

Craig Middlemass 01-Apr-2013
Weekly Team Meeting - 26 March 2013

Work completed last week

  • Dev Build is complete barring an issue with EASE authentication - deadline set for Wednesday to switch back to local auth if EASE is failing
  • Agreement reached to give the project team named user accounts so that they can trial different set up of user preferences

Issues Encountered

Craig Middlemass 26-Mar-2013
Weekly Team Meeting 19 March 2013

Work completed last week

  • Created script to allow setting of default use in new CMC - complete
  • Dev Build - ongoing
  • Agreed strucuture for stakeholder groups (see email) discussed at sponsor meeting - complete

Issues Encountered

Craig Middlemass 19-Mar-2013
Weekly Team Meeting - 12 March 2013

Work completed last week

Craig Middlemass 12-Mar-2013
Weekly Team Meeting - 26 Feb 2013

Work completed last week

Craig Middlemass 26-Feb-2013
Weekly Team Meeting - 19 Feb 2013

 Work completed last week

  • Dev VM has been delivered
  • TAD ready for issue today
  • Andrew to pass SAP market place account to Rob and Alister - Complete
  • Circulate definition of client tools to business for sign off - Andrew - Complete
  • Investigate how to get MyEd Launcher channels changed (starting with Martin Morrey) - Andrew - Complete (only need to submit new laucher channel request)

Issues Encountered

Craig Middlemass 19-Feb-2013