Report for May 2013

Report Date

May 2013

Achievements in Last Period  

None

Issues

• Phase1: Boxi Report. Report was signed-off for UAT, but once live showed further data problems, some  reflecting problems in SMART itself. Issues were  not resolved in time for HCA to use them for exam boards, so the school reverted to current procedures. Divinity were willing to use the report even thougfh it had some data issues that would need work around. Outstanding fixes due to be done first two weeks of July as too risky to try and fix during/close to exam boards- agreed by PM, Sponsor and Service Owner .  
• Phase1: STREAM/SMARTMI. TEST Memory issue still unresolved. This code could not be proven to work due to TEST environment issues, so was dropped as a piece of work - agreed by PM, Sponsor and Service Owner. The alternative solution that had been prepared which was to point BOXI to APPSLIVE transactional DB rather than read-only NEWSLIVE was rejected by Service Owner as being unproven, and also had not been part of the consultation process - agreed by PM, Sponsor and Service Owner . A new approach was advocated to allow real-time reporting, which is to run the overnight job at an agreed time on exam board days, which would refresh the NEWSLIVE DB from APPSLIVE. This is using existing processes and was arrange by Service and Support, rather than needing project resource other than PM.  
• Phase 2: A number of critical issues reported in the LIVE environment after the deployment of NULL and PASS/FAIL. Issues recorded in Jira and were all resolved.  
• Phase 2: PGT Pass/Fail Not delivered due to risk of changing SMART so close to the exam boards - agreed by PM, Sponsor and Service Owner . This work is scheduled for first two weeks of July.  

Next Steps

• Phase 1 reporting:
  • Resolve issues for BOXI so that Divinity can use the report
  • Fix issues in July
  • Set up job to refresh NEWSLIVE from APPSLIVE at agreed dat/times to allow exam boards same-day updates  
• Phase 2 enhancements:
  • UAT in July for PGT Pass/Fail  

• budget is overrunning Project Sponsor has been given an estimate of around 50 days overspend which he accepts  

Milestones