Report for November 2019

Report Date
November 2019

Achievements in Last Period:

  • Steady progress has been made over the last month despite non-availability of project resource during some of the period.
  • The deliverable to enable mailbox auditing for all mailboxes across the organisation has been completed.

  • Good progress has been made in identifying and reducing the number of global administration roles.

  • Discussion had on the possible merits of wider staff involvement in Multi-Factor Authentication. Agreed  that Production Management would read any recommendations.

  • The project team has agreed that the scope of the project can be increased to add a warning banner to external eMails containing URL's.

Issues:

  • No forward plan to compensate for loss of the Project Manager in January (reason for reporting a RAG status of RED).

Next Steps:

  • Change record to be raised for an extension to the project scope.
  • Continue to undertake further analysis and report findings in accordance with the plan.
Project Status
RAG Status
Time
GREEN
Cost
GREEN
Scope
GREEN
Overall
RED
RAG Commentary
The project manager is due to end their contract in January 2020. Due to a shortage of resources in Project Services we currently have no availability to take on the PM role should the contract not be extended. Failure to assign a project manager in January will delay progress with the project, putting our delivery date of a key information security project at risk.
Change Status
Time
No Change
Cost
No Change
Scope
No Change
Overall
No Change
Has formal escalation taken place?
Yes
Escalated to
Programme Manager
Activity
Approved budget
100.0 days
Activity this month
4.5 days
Activity this year
11.5 days
Activity to date
11.5 days
Estimate to complete current year
88.5 days
Estimate to complete future years
0.0 days

Project Info

Project
Office 365 Security Hardening
Code
COM051
Programme
ISG - Communication (COM)
Management Office
ISG PMO
Project Manager
Sue Woodger
Project Sponsor
Alex Carter
Current Stage
Close
Status
Closed
Project Classification
Grow
Start Date
09-Sep-2019
Planning Date
25-Oct-2019
Delivery Date
14-Jul-2021
Close Date
23-Jul-2021
Overall Priority
Higher
Category
Compliance

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