Impact

  • Alignment to Strategy 2030:  People; Research; Teach and Learn
  • Sustainability: Maintenance of the data feeds is usually business as usual, and that shouldn’t change.

Priority and Funding

  • This is a 200d 2 year core funded compliance project in the current plan, with normal priority.

  • Funding is split between the two years at 75d for 2021/22 and 125d for 2022/23 

 

Impact and Dependencies

Impact 

  • All staff and students who use PebblePad, Learn and Moodle. All of these systems have some unresolved issues  with the data being pushed from upstream systems. These issues might include missing data and/or inefficient feed processing. 

Dependencies  

  • Dependencies on EUCLID, VRS and IDM 

  • Dependency on VRS redevelopment project (particularly for issues seen in PebblePad ) - close liaison will be required 

  • Also may have some dependency on the GDPR compliance project (TEL077) and current data retention work which has been ongoing:  data retention processes for Learn have already been developed  

  • Keep semester dates in mind for any data feed work. 

  • Upgrades to Learn over the next few years mean that Learn Building Blocks will no longer work by end of 2023.  We currently use a building block as part of the timetable feed for group creation but this may be deprecated. 

  • TImetabling system replacement and new IDAM service coming in the future. 

Lessons learned from previous projects

Lessons learned themes chosen by programme manager are:  

  • Management of Service 

  • Operations 

  • Technology 

PMO will provide a summary of previous Lessons Learned based on this selection: 

 

Project Risks

Ref Title Initial Risk Current Risk Status Risk Owner
1 LTW Staff availability to project AMBER AMBER Open Karen Howie
4 Availability of service owners to test their own automated process GREEN GREEN Open Karen Howie
5 Redevelopment work could become more complex than originally planned GREEN GREEN Open Karen Howie
6 Service Management time may become compromised GREEN GREEN Open Susan Cooke
7 Resources in Software Dev may become unavailable GREEN GREEN Open John Allison
8 External input may be required, thus incurring costs GREEN GREEN Open Karen Howie
9 Deployment dates may need to be revised GREEN GREEN Open Karen Howie
10 Vendor availability could impact delivery GREEN GREEN Open Karen Howie
11 Estimates for Year 2 of project could require changes to budget GREEN GREEN Open Colin Watt
12 Changes to IDM/VRS could impact what is being designed and developed GREEN GREEN Open Alex Carter

 

 

Project Info

Project
Datafeed Redevelopment
Code
TEL078
Programme
ISG - Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)
Management Office
ISG PMO
Project Manager
David Watters
Project Sponsor
Karen Howie
Current Stage
Close
Status
Closed
Start Date
23-Aug-2021
Planning Date
27-May-2022
Delivery Date
22-Aug-2023
Close Date
04-Mar-2024
Overall Priority
Normal

Documentation

Plan