Agenda item

Report of the Chamberlain

The Sub-Committee received a report of the Chamberlain which provided Members with an update of progress against the IS Strategy and IS Project Portfolio as a whole. It also highlighted key issues, risk and mitigating actions to drive projects back to green status.

In respect of the Oracle upgrade, currently in red status, the Chief Information Officer advised that intensive discussions had taken place through a series of Business Impact workshops with key staff across the Corporation which resulted in a re-plan that was signed off by the Oracle Steering Group on 26 August 2014. The project would remain in red status while commercial discussions continued and until major testing had finished in mid-October at which point the status would return to amber.

In response to a Members question, Officers explained that the Pension Systems Upgrade remained amber due to additional time being required for in-house activities. There was a contingency in place and it was expected that the project would return to green.

He went on to inform Members that as part of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) project further time had been requested to show that implementation had been successful. Additionally, the Project Initiation Document (PID) had been refreshed and was awaiting review and comment in early September.

RESOLVED: That the report be noted.