Report for December 2017

Report Date
December 2017
Achievements to date
  • Project brief - meeting held to review and updates agreed

  • Project Plan created / dates to be realigned taken into consideration activity under RES069

  • v5.7 JIRAs being investigated and escalated with Elsevier

  • Agreement to hold joint update meetings with RES069 and Support team as projects are closely aligned and similar resource assigned

 

Issues
  • Outstanding JIRAs reviewed with Elsevier contact as current response is to fix in next release this is noted as v5.10 and not v5.7 this raised a number of risks to the support of the application until the fix is available
  • Project Manager request is being progressed expecting contract PM CVs in next couple of weeks to cover shortlisting and interviews 
 
Next Steps
  • Project brief final sign off and approval

  • Continue with upgrade 5.7 into test environment

  • Complete UAT for v5.7

  • Preparation for Live upgrade currently scheduled for end of January

  • Communication to users groups to be issued

The project status is AMBER due to project brief sign off delayed and key issues raised to supplier

Project Status
RAG Status
Time
AMBER
Cost
GREEN
Scope
AMBER
Overall
AMBER
RAG Commentary
CHANGE : due to project brief sign off delayed and key issues raised to supplier
Change Status
Activity
Approved budget
50.0 days
Activity this month
1.8 days
Activity this year
2.3 days
Activity to date
2.3 days
Estimate to complete current year
46.0 days
Estimate to complete future years
0.0 days

Project Info

Project
PURE - Annual Upgrade
Code
RIS001
Programme
Research Information Systems (RIS)
Management Office
ISG PMO
Project Manager
Kim Keenan
Project Sponsor
Dominic Tate
Current Stage
Close
Status
Closed
Start Date
03-Nov-2017
Planning Date
n/a
Delivery Date
n/a
Close Date
06-Apr-2018
Programme Priority
2
Overall Priority
Normal
Category
Compliance