- Completed interim arrangements to manage departure of our IT Enquiries Manager. Various staff announcements now ready to go for next week.
- Update on MARS applications received to date - closing date is March 12th
- Review of the Business Systems budget which is fully committed but we know what's in it and what's outstanding.
- Faculty of Arts desktop replacement increased with faculty investment (£35k) in very high spec workstations for three smaller student-facing areas not part of lab replacement (to replace legacy PC kit - also addresses complaints from students and risk of inconsistent experience)
- Further meeting with Print Unit and procurement ref deal on offer for BI reporting from the Ricoh print systems. They are now doing a nil-cost pilot with one Faculty.
- MX building UPS system discussed in meeting with Estates and Schneider this week ref the investment plan project and getting that under way urgently.
- Some mitigation for MI building regarding glazing and access control (an issue we have experienced during recent power cuts).
- Apple purchasing we are working on a direct award and contract for Apple equipment after the National Framework concludes.
- I attended level 2/3 team meeting and updated them on various changes and activities and took questions for an hour session.
- Weekly scrum meeting dedicated to Health and Safet - we have established governance - a single committee meeting quarterly. We have an agenda for first meeting. Signed off a personal evacuation plan for member of team this week.
- Held a meeting with a cast of folk dealing with Springfield. We are going to need some dedicated IT support resource to manage a project as big as this (£45M+over 2 years) with many IT components.
- Attended another GDPR working group led by Emma Wedge - there is detailed plan in place.
Good News
- Investment in 24/7 out of hours service (NorMAN) approved for 17/18 pilot - kick-off meeting held and Easter targeted for launch
- Second Line Support Analyst post shortlisting in progress.
- Risks reduced by de-commision of WebServ3 (including some systems de-commissioned) and moving WOLF legacy to a single server.
- No P1 incidents.
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