Project journal
| Title | Description | Author | Post date |
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| Project Services Present Poster at EDUCAUSE 2014 Annual Conference |
Mark Ritchie and Rhian Davies from our Project Management Organisation (PMO) were invited to present a poster session at the 2014 EDUCAUSE conference in Florida. The poster focussed on the variety of training and support options that we offer to our staff and students to help them deliver successful projects. The post was very well well received and generated a lot of interest and new contacts across the educational sector.
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Dawn Holmes | 08-Oct-2014 |
| Project Outcomes Report for Information Services Group (13/14) Now Available |
The year end project outcomes report for Information Services Group (ISG) highlighting key projects and benefits delivered during 13/14 is now available at: https://www.projects.ed.ac.uk/portfolio/isg There were a number of successful projects across the ISG Portfolio delivering significant benefits for both students and staff. Highlights included: |
Adam Wadee | 07-Oct-2014 |
| IS Applications Project Update - 26th September |
New Projects None this week
Projects at the End of Planning None approved this week
Projects Deployed Capture Staff Levels in Oracle HR & Payroll (HRS080) https://www.projects.ed.ac.uk/project/hrs080 |
Mark Ritchie | 06-Oct-2014 |
| IS Applications Project Update - 2nd October |
New Projects Simulated Patient Enhancements https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/display/insite/ASTA+Project+Request+Template+-+MVM005 Project Manager: Maurice Franceschi |
Mark Ritchie | 06-Oct-2014 |
| IS Applications Project Update - 19th September |
New Projects QMP Upgrade 2014/15(TEL018) - (project site available shortly) Postgraduate Research Student Lifecycle (SAC041) - https://www.projects.ed.ac.uk/project/sac041 UniDesk Service Level Management (SMI007) - (project site available shortly)
Projects at the End of Planning |
Mark Ritchie | 25-Sep-2014 |
| Successful Start of Term for IT Services |
Week 1 of start of term 2014 has been completed successfully with IT services generally running well through this busy period. Staff in Information Services and our business partner organisations have worked effectively to ensure that even those IT services with known issues have continued to deliver a good services for students and staff over the critical start of term. IS Applications would like to thank colleagues for their engagement with the process this year and for their contribution to the delivery of smooth running and stable IT services. |
Mark Ritchie | 22-Sep-2014 |
| IS Applications Project Update - 12th September 2014 |
New Projects MyEd Continuous Improvement(WEB006) - https://www.projects.ed.ac.uk/programme/wit (Project Site available shortly)
Projects at the End of Planning CRM for HSS Options Appraisal (HSS004) - https://www.projects.ed.ac.uk/project/hss004 |
Mark Ritchie | 17-Sep-2014 |
| IS Apps Project Update - 5th September 2014 |
New Projects Question Mark Perception Upgrade 2014/15 (TEL018) https://www.projects.ed.ac.uk/programme/tel (Project Web Site available shortly) Projects at the End of Planning Essential Enhancements for Finance Applications 2014/15 (FIN099) https://www.projects.ed.ac.uk/project/fin099 |
Mark Ritchie | 12-Sep-2014 |
| Certification Exam Success for IS Applications Division Staff |
A number of staff in our Project Services team have just passed external certification examinations in project and programme management. These exams are used worldwide to demonstrate a good level of understanding of industry best practice in these key disciplines. The staff achieving certification were: |
Mark Ritchie | 08-Sep-2014 |
| External Recognition for the Projects Web Site |
Ron Rosenhead, CEO of the Project Agency author of Strategies for Project Sponsorship and respected project management consultant recently interviewed Mark Ritchie, the Head of Project Services, and commented favourably on the IS Applications Projects Web Site in his blog "How much project management information do you share" |
Mark Ritchie | 25-Aug-2014 |
| University of Edinburgh Contributes to UCISA Project and Change Management Best Practice Resource |
Mark Ritchie, the Deputy Director and Head of Project Services within Applications Division, also chairs the Project and Change Management Group for the University and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA). In this capacity Mark has promoted and developed the Major Projects Governance Assessment Toolkit for adoption as a UCISA Best Practice resource. |
Mark Ritchie | 25-Aug-2014 |
| OUTAGE - website offline at 11:30am Tuesday 20th for 30 minutes |
The projects website will be going offline at 11:30am on Tuesday 20th to allow for a maintenance tasks. The site will be offline for approximately 30 minutes.
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Dawn Holmes | 20-May-2014 |
| New RSS Feed for Project News Articles |
A new RSS feed has been added to the projects website homepage to allow users to subscribe to the latest project news articles.
Dawn Nichols IS Applications Division |
Dawn Holmes | 25-Apr-2014 |
| Enhancements to the Projects Website |
In response to user feedback, a number of enhancements have been applied to the Projects Website including: - |
Dawn Holmes | 02-Apr-2014 |
| PMO team presenting at UCISA 2014 |
Rhian Davies and Mark Ritchie are presenting a poster session at the annual UCISA conference in Brighton on 26th March, talking about some of the ways in which Project Services have helped to develop a project culture at the University. For more details please see https://www.projects.ed.ac.uk/ucisa Dawn Nicholls IS Applications Division
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Dawn Holmes | 26-Mar-2014 |
| Ediburgh University Contributes To UCISA Good Practice Guide For IT Infrastructure Projects |
Iain Fiddes, from IS Applications Development Services, has developed a new good practice guide "Delivering Business Benefits From IT Infrastructure Projects" which has been published by the University and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA). The paper proposes techniques to be used to improve the identification and realisation of business benefits from IT infrastructure projects and includes case studies taken from recent University projects including Shared Academic Timetabling and EUCLID. The paper recommends: |
Mark Ritchie | 03-Dec-2013 |
| Projects Website supporting Learning and Teaching |
The projects website is increasingly being used across the University to support a wide range of projects being managed by areas other than IS Applications. For example, the Technology Enhanced Learning Programme run by User Services Division, which focuses on providing joined up tools and infrastructure to support core teaching and learning within the University and incorporates the work of the eLearning and Information Skills team. |
Maurice Franceschi | 25-Nov-2013 |
| Agile Software Development - Survey Results |
In July IS Applications ran a survey on the uptake of agile software development and agile techniques in Higher Education across the UK, America and Canada. We posted the invitation on the UCISA PCMG mailing list and the EDUCAUSE Project mailing list in and were delighted to received feedback from 38 institutions - 21 in the UK and 17 in North America. The analysis of the feedback is now complete and the results are available online at https://www.projects.ed.ac.uk/agile_survey_results. |
Dawn Holmes | 09-Oct-2013 |
| Enhancements To The Projects Website |
In response to user feedback, a number of enhancements have been applied to the site over the last week including: - |
Dawn Holmes | 25-Sep-2013 |
