Completion Report

Project Summary:

It was agreed at SSIG on 29th April that this project would be closed and the budget transferred to SAC007 to allow some smaller enhancements to complete in 2012/13.

The scope and priority of this project will be reviewed in line with all projects currently above the red line for 2013/14 (depending on the outcome of the ESS business case review).

The project completed to Project Brief; no further deliverables.

Staff Usage is split as follows:

22.5 days for IS Applications; 4.5 days for SACs resources.

Analysis of Resource Usage:

Staff Usage Estimate: 100 days

Staff Usage Actual: 27 days

Staff Usage Variance: -73%

Other Resource Estimate: 0 days

Other Resource Actual: 0 days

Other Resource Variance: 0%

Explanation for variance:

• The project is closing at the stage of the Brief sign off; hence the full budget has not been spent.
• The Planning stage took longer than anticipated as, with the identification of key dependencies on other projects, the overall approach and prioritisation needed to be revisited to agree approach and revised delivery schedules. This involved a survey of SSIG members to determine priorities for the work.
• There was unplanned activity for project handover, due to departure of the project manager and for resource allocation.

Key Learning Points:

• Prioritisation of functionality took longer than anticipated; recommend that User feedback is gathered early in the process to define the relative priorities of the new functionality.
• The dependencies on other projects (specifically, development of Group Functions capability on SSG007, and the planned upgrade of Grouper that was deferred to 13/14) meant that the build approach needed to be reviewed: identify dependencies as early as possible to ensure that this can be incorporated in planning approach.

Outstanding issues:

None.