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DEVELOPMENT - John Meagher
Product
¢ EPOSS ‘ .
- Functional specification being developed through workshops and issues
- new production plan for PPDs discussed and agreed in principle
- new drafts awaited for test preps
« APS
— APS AIS received and reviewed but document not considered sufficient to clear AZA
- new production plan for PPDS discussed and agreed in principle
« BPS
. - EVP (see security)
- new production plan for PPDS discussed and agreed in principle
* OBCS
- new production plan for PPDS discussed an agreed in principle
¢ Accounting
- reports documentation reviewed but reports are unacceptable
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DEVELOPMENT - John Meagher
Security
« FRMS
- user documentation received
- HLTPS reviewed and nil comments returned
- awaiting FRMS product development plan
EPOSS
- expect to authorise ACP v2.0 by 3 April
« BPS
- resolution of outstanding EVP issues
* verbal agreements reached with ICL Pathway and Sponsors
* awaiting new iteration of EVP requirements paper
- PCHL authorisation HD issue
taken forward with ICL Pathway at joint meeting with a work plan agreed
* awaiting finalisation of dates of work plan activities from ICL Pathway
¢ Infrastructure
- SFS v3.0 approved with caveats
- physical security
* all site surveys have been conducted and Pathway notified of areas of concern which may impact
acceptance
+ state of readiness of central sites at time of the surveys would not meet acceptance criteria
* awaiting response from Pathway on template for conformance plan
- agreement reached per scope and content of infrastructural security test coverage
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DEVELOPMENT - John Meagher
Technical
* Migration
- working with Pathway but progress is slow
* first handshake missed
* MiECCO and MiMan functional specs
* delays due to POCL and Pathway not being able to agree commercials of proposed migration strategy
* Contingency
- little progress made by any of the assurance teams
- little visibility of Pathway having done much work in this area
- expecting Service Management to drive POCL side
- starting to become a critical path activity
* Interfaces
- TP
* progress is being made with all teams talking to each other
* two key issues remain
- agreement on how exceptions handled
- there may be a dependency on the resolution of the EPOSS issues
- Reference Data
there are recognised issues with the interface’
- technical team are engaged in resolving them
- likely to encounter commercial issues
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DEVELOPMENT - John Meagher
Technical continued
¢ Reference Data
~ End to end data architecture is being documented
- Validation will begin in 2 weeks which should highlight the main data issues
- Pathway are performing an assessment of their use of Reference Data
- first drop of Reference Data due on 1 April
¢ Infrastructure
- poor visibility of Pathway’s infrastructure
- awaiting CCNs for known changes to Pathway’s original solution
« 4 data centres proposed as 2
* non-ISDN likely to be proposed as Frame Relay
* Horizon Light
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TESTING - Simon Rilot
DIT1
* unlikely to achieve planned/expected scope
- problems with TIP interface
- problems with Temporary Token transactions over CAPS interface
DIT 2
a detailed risk assessment for entry to DIT2 will arise from a joint meeting of test managers on
Monday 6 April
MO/E2E
* preparation underway and on target, but
- no BES transactions -
- potential problems with POCL environments
* parallel and disparate dates needed for MO/E2E
. «other planned activities for POCL groups
Risks
* — degree of potential change to baseline
- EPOSS ‘
- change to tech design in areas such as TPS
* ref data related problems, potential impact on later test phases
¢ — skill/resource availability
* acceptance activity, will it be required during MO /B2E and what will effect be across all test
phases?
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TESTING - Min Burdett ~ I
POCL Systems
¢ Interim TIP
- subject to no major changes arising from the outstanding design issues, Interim TIP is on track
for all test phases and go live for NR2
¢ Reference Data Project
- subject to no major changes arising from the outstanding design issues, Reference Data is on
track for all test phases and go live for NR2
* HAPS Interface Project
- ontrack for all test phases and go live for NR2
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TESTING - Simon Rilot
CAPS and Feeder Benefit Systems
* Nile 1.0
- CAPS Release 3 will be delivered as planned.on 13 April 98
- ISCS Release 12 will be delivered as planned for 20 April 98
* Nile 2.0
- CAPS testing has been aligned to all major test phases of Nile 2
- CAPS will be ready to support all agreed test activities including
¢ E2Eon1/6
* Model Office on 8/6 using JSA
* Y2K compliance
- Asignificant part of the DSS IT programme aims to ensure Y2k compliance as detailed in
CAPS plans
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ACCEPTANCE - John Meagher
* concerns over the viability of the acceptance plan
* concerns over the resource implications of the acceptance plan for both Horizon and Pathway
* ready to review acceptance specifications
- allxzeviewers identified and informed
~ first specs due on w/c 6/4
- everyone in the loop for the review panel
- ICL Pathway acceptance manager is aware of review process
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MIGRATION 1C TO 2 - Bruce McNiven
In-Office Migration Strategy
* sign off was due on 16 March
- development hampered due to continuing changes of management personnel within Pathway
- Pathway experiencing problems in signing off their own document because it has been heavily
sourced on information provided by Horizon Staff
- noevidence of agreed way forward
¢ high risk area with impacts on:
- training of field support staff
- input to model office :
Migration Strategy for 1c to 2
* although the strategy has been signed off, significant additional detail needs to be developed
* subsequent documentation is still thin
- expecting a wide range of comments from reviewers with inevitable impact on production
timescales
- Pathway have not taken up POCL’s offer of informed resource to support their document
production
* critical path activity for NR2
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IMPLEMENTATION - Bruce McNiven
National Rollout Strategy.
* delays caused by CAPS requirements issue
- Pathway need more sight of CAPS benefit migration policy
- joint Sponsor and Pathway meeting scheduled for 15 April
* Horizon Light still not specified as a product which will impact NRO
Split Infrastructure Strategy
¢ delayed due to commercial ramifications
* not possible to determine when this agreement will be reached
* — clear implications for rollout
- impact on pool of modified outlets available
POCL Business Decisions
* Horizon are actively tracking, and pressing for resolution, a number of issues which have potential
dependencies on Rollout
- user guide ownership and production
- operational business change process ownership
- sub-postmaster buy-in package
- business approach to steady state training
- available training window and POCL’s robust management of the sub-postmaster contract to
ensure attendance
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LIVE TRIAL - Mitchell Leimon
‘1¢->2 migration - timetables for start and completion
Review meeting, Friday
2nd benefit availability
Issues paper out next week
Strategy paper this month
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SERVICE SUPPORT - Graham Beck (Bruce McNiven?)
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FUTURE RELEASES - Mitchell Leimon
¢ Nile 2+ working group in operation
* Steps agreed (plan for a plan)
* Challenge to get to RCD by 31 May
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FALLBACK AND CONTINGENCY PLANS - Mitchell Leimon I
* PlanAv.PlanB
- Pathway concerns unfounded
¢ Informal offer of Cl and C2 withdrawn
* ‘Switch not slip’
- decision point - prior to Model Office
- slippage method:
* fixed model office duration
* contingency for extra testing
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