Update before I go on leave next week.
I am now near completion of the applicant side of the ECA application, the staff allocation process is casuing issues in that we are still not 100% sure of how this process is managed as some of it is administered manually.
I am working on the final stages of the applicant side and will be moving on the to final process of staff allocation shortly. The allocation procedure is where I expect the build will become more difficult as this section will need some reworking to make it run correctly, we also need to know what the manual part of this process is.
Signoff meeting
This meeting was attended by a registry representative, the heads of department for application management and technology management, my project manager, riky and Iain (department head) from dev tech.
Devtech have announced their proposal for the shared file system the application will run, this has been protested again by application and technology management on the basis of it being too complicated for them to maintain.
Mark d'amara (technology) has stated he is not satisfied that the project is out of development on the basis he does not understand the file system and it is not specified in my SDS (I understood that this system was part of infrastructure).
The meeting became quite heated, the two department heads were blocking the progress of the design. Iain (devtech) had explained the system in detail however they still held the opinion that it was too complicated for them to maintain, when asked what they would prefer they suggested manually checking all the submitted files on both servers. This raised further argument that no one would want to spend the required amount of time doing this.
It would later be explained to me that the difference of opinion could be a political one as opposed to a practical one. To me sorting through hundreds of images by hand is not practical.
We have been asked to detail this system in the SDS now before it can be signed off.
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