Report for May 2021

Report Date
May 2021

 

Achievements in Last Period

  • DEV Environment upgrade progressed
  • Project handed over to new PM

Issues

  • New issue - milestones to be updated: https://secure.projects.ed.ac.uk/unpublished/project/sac087/issues/5 . The Dev upgrade is still not completed, and is now 6 weeks behind schedule. This is due to technical issues which have been picked up by the project team, and these are being resolved as they are uncovered. There is still no impact to go live as yet due to the longer period of functional testing, and this is estimated to be 6 to 8 weeks following the signoff of the DEV Upgrade. PICCL 5 will be submitted to WIS when the new milestone dates are established.

  • New risk Upgrade may take longer

  • The Project Team are investigating an issue in DEV which requires a restart of the client after a period of idle time.

Next Steps

  • Resolve issues in DEV environment
  • Complete upgrade in DEV environment
  • Review and Update Upgrade Documentation to ensure lessons learned are included
  • Start function testing
  • Schedule upgrade in Data Futures environment (FUT) for July

Milestones 

 

Build

Dev SITS software upgraded

TBC (was 15-APR-2021)

Build SITS Software Upgrade Documentation signed off  TBC

Build

Dev SITS software upgrade signed off

TBC (was 30-APR-2021)

Test 

Functional testing in Dev

TBC (was 30-JUN-2021)

Integrate

Test SITS software upgraded

 06 Sep 2021

Integrate

Test SITS software upgrade signed off

22 Sep 2021

Accept

TRN SITS software upgraded

29 Sep 2021

Deliver

Live SITS software upgraded

10 Oct 2021 

Deliver

Fall Back week-end SITS Software live upgrade

21 Nov 2021

Deliver

Deployment sign off review

10 Nov 2021

Close

Closure

30 Nov 2021

Project Status
RAG Status
Time
RED
Cost
GREEN
Scope
GREEN
Overall
RED
RAG Commentary
Issue - Ongoing technical issues in DEV have delayed the upgrade to 10.1. The Project Team has worked through these issues to resolve them, however this has pushed the completion of the DEV upgrade 6 weeks behind schedule. The last upgrade was done over a too long period, it needs to be done over one week to have confidence ahead of go live. Impact - As yet, there is no impact on the Go Live date (10-Oct-2021). Mitigation - The team believes the major issues have been resolved with the upgrade, but upgrade documentation needs to be completed. Confidence in able to run the upgrade within one week will be checked when the next non-live environment upgrade is done in July, ahead of the scheduled TEST, Training (TRN) and Live environment upgrades later in the year.
Change Status
Time
Significant
Cost
No Change
Scope
No Change
Overall
Significant
Has formal escalation taken place?
No
Escalated to
Project Sponsor, Programme Manager
Activity
Approved budget
254.0 days
Activity this month
46.4 days
Activity this year
180.3 days
Activity to date
180.3 days
Estimate to complete current year
32.3 days
Estimate to complete future years
60.0 days

Project Info

Project
SITS double software upgrade
Code
SAC087
Programme
Student Systems Partnership SSP
Management Office
ISG PMO
Project Manager
Alan Donald
Project Sponsor
Brandi Headon
Current Stage
Close
Status
Closed
Project Classification
Run
Start Date
05-Oct-2020
Planning Date
23-Oct-2020
Delivery Date
10-Oct-2021
Close Date
30-Nov-2021
Overall Priority
Highest
Category
Compliance

Documentation