FORM – PSR
Template Version 3
Oct/09
Monthly Project Status Report
Project Name
Curriculum
Management: Modules
and Pathways
IS Project Code
IS-0163-02
Project Manager
Angie Heffer
Project Sponsor
Paul Baxter / Paul Smith
Report Period From
1 March 2010
Report Period To
31 March 2010
RAG Status
Green
Report Number
4
Please include details of any achievements, completed objectives as well as any other general
comments
Deliverables (as outlined in Section 10 of the
PPD)
Planned Date
(from PPD)
Expected Date
Date Completed
e:Vision task created to facilitate module data capture
into SITS
1 September 2009
5 November 2009
7 January 2010
MDF SRL built
1 October 2009
29 January 2010
29 January 2010
MOD-based e:Vision vista for data capture task created
and operational
1 September 2009
5 November 2009
7 January 2010
e:Vision CON/COP records created and operational
1 September 2009
5 November 2009
7 January 2010
All required module data stored in SITS
1 October 2009
19 February 2010
28 February 2010
Revised PPD created and finalised for Phases 1 and 2
08 March 2010
08 March 2010
PPD for Phase 3 to be finalised
15 April 2010
Phase 2: Manage my Curriculum Stage 1:
Access to e-Vision for all appropriate staff
31 March 2010
30 April 2010
Verification of Module Data by academic and relevant
support staff – development and implementation
12 April 2010
16 April 2010
Arrangements for training of academic and relevant
support staff
31 March 2010
Develop e-Vision task for printing viewing and limited
amendment of MDF data
9 April 2010
Supporting training material for training sessions for
academics and relevant support staff
28 April 2010
Implementation of Manage my Curriculum
10 May 2010
Staff Development and training for all academic staff and
relevant support staff
21 May 2010
Module Catalogue Online Phase 1 development
31 May 2010
Testing, documentation and handover to Operations and
Customer Support
31 May 2010
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Implementation of Module Catalogue Online Phase 1
25 June 2010
Develop functionality in My.Anglia to retrieve module
information
31 May 2010
Testing, documentation and handover of My.Anglia
31 May 2010
Implementation of module information via My.Anglia
25 June 2010
Redirect Online Module Catalogue links to module data
on My.Anglia
25 June 2010
Amend online module catalogue search facility to link to
module data on My.Anglia
25 June 2010
Communiqué Development to retrieve
information via our marketing website
module
31 May 2010
Testing, documentation and handover of Communiqué
development
31 May 2010
Implementation
www.anglia.ac.uk
25 June 2010
of
module
information
via
Close MDF provision on “J” Drive
30 June 2010
Phase 3: Module Diets and automatic module enrolment for level 1 undergraduate students entering Anglia Ruskin
Initial Consultancy – Tribal
28 February 2010
Tribal Consultancy and training session for development
of module diets functionality
30 April 2010
8/9 April 2010
Further deliverables and timescales to be detailed
following consultancy on 8 and 9 April
Progress achieved this period
PPD for phases 1 and 2 approved by SITS Project Board on 8 March 2010 – approval by CMT ISMS
Sub Group by Chair’s Action (Alan Sibbald)
Budget £47,000 set up – remaining budget from IS-0056 to be transferred.
PPD for Phase 3 (Module diets and automatic module enrolment for level 1 undergraduate students
entering core ARU) started – to be finalised following consultancy on 8 April 2010.
Module data and module availability transferred to DEV2 to enable up to date development
environment
Early stages of developing the e-Vision “Manage my Curriculum” interface
Development of a task within e-Vision for academic staff to validate MDF data 90% complete
Outlook for next period
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Finalise task within e-Vision for academic staff to validate MDF data
Request for Change to be submitted to CAB for implementation 12 April 2010
Operations and Customer Support Handover of task for Verification of Module Data 12 April 2010
Continue to develop the e-Vision “Manage my Curriculum” interface
Resolution of PDF issue for displaying and printing MDF data
Resolution of upside down question marks
Resolution of staff access to e-Vision
Consultancy and training from Tribal for first phase of module diets confirmed and 8 and 9 April 2010.
Key Risks
Potential
Extent of
Impact
(H, M, L)
Likelihood
of
Occurrence
(H, M, L)
Stability and reliability of e-Vision
M
M
Variable performance based on the
version of IE being used
H
M
Analysis of why e-Vision tasks
are effected by the version of IE
Availability of A&D resource due to
competing high priorities
H
M
Timely requests to be
presented to ISMS A&D
Planning Group
Key Issues
Priority
(H, M, L)
Progress / Support Required
Ability for MDFs to be printed in
desired format
H
A&D support to advise – time booked during
March 2010 – to be resolved April 2010
Translation of characters held in
SITS to the web interface is currently
converting punctuation marks into
upside down question marks
H
A&D support to advise – time booked during
March 2010 – issue resolved
Staff who have not accessed eVision for some time will no longer
have an active account. This needs
to be resolved before training
sessions to all academic and
relevant support staff in May 2010
H
Core ARU staff records will need to be verified
and updated. It may be possible to automate
this process, but if not then temporary resource
will be required to manually validate records.
Change Requests
Progress / Support Required
Update March 2010: A&D / Operations staff
time booked during April to ensure access is
granted to all relevant staff. Report from HR
being worked on by Paul Baxter to inform.
Status
Priority
(H ,M ,L)
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Progress / Support Required
None
VARIANCE
Scope Variance
RAG
REASON
G
Scope has been changed slightly to take account of
changed priorities from the SITS project. Amended PPD
will provide details.
Infrastructure and hardware requirements for a .NET
service have been removed from the scope – existing
server and services (use of StuTalk / PubSub to push
MDF data on a scheduled or per change basis)
Budget Variance
G
Additional phase one costs have now been identified for
the solution that will allow the production of Module
Definition Forms in PDF format from e-Vision. This was
unanticipated as we expected the documents to be
produced in Word. Details of cost will be included in the
updated PPD when available.
Additional consultancy days required will form the basis of
the revised PPD for this and subsequent phases of the
project
Resource Variance
Schedule Variance (time)
Quality Variance
A
Competing priorities for ISMS A&D resources – means
that planned work to achieve deliverables need to be
carefully managed.
G
+ 1 month - the project was delayed due to technical
problems relating to the use of MAV, and imposed delay
as the SITS Project was established. This has now been
taken account of in terms of future planning
G
Stakeholder Issue
G
Risk Level
A
e-Vision task has variable performance depending on the
version of Internet Explorer being used. Stability and
reliability of e-Vision is causing some concern.
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