Housing TrustMigration

(including Interfacing)

George Palios

Contents

The government were encouraging Council’s to separate out their housing stock from Authority control and funded the creation of a number of Housing Trusts(HHT). Staff were automatically transferred over to the trust, but the new Trust had no computer systems, so these had to be purchased and then all existing data migrated across to the new machines.

Here are a few slides from the many presentations I held to explain how the Housing systems would be transferred to the new Housing Trust computers(fairly easy), and how the electronic interfaces would be migrated(more complex). My role was to Project Manage the migration (including designing the new systems architecture), over a 3-month period.

The diagrams are admittedly a little complex for the presentation, but were actual working documents.

• Investigation

Aims

• Change Process

• Change Requirement

• My Role

• Organisation

• Organisation

Change Requirement

• Tenants rights protected• Separate Company

• £329Million investment – 30 years

• Stock Transfer Project Teams

• Vote for Housing Trust

Original Configuration

Proposed Goal

Investigation

• Existing Software• Deadlines

• Resources

• Data Volumes/Frequencies

Relevant Information

Choices

• Option 2: Re-Model Interface Software

SWOT Analysis

Effectiveness• Selected Option 2

• Option 1: Manual Data Transfer

Proposed Solution

Change Process

• Meetings• Reports / Dataflow Diagrams

Milestones• Deadlines• Proof of Concept

Communication

• Activities / Resources / Timescales• Dependencies / Critical Path

Project Plan

Proof of Concept

Key Activities

• Testing

• Flexibility

• Skills Transfer

• Test Environment• Contingency

• Resources

Summary

• Implementation Plan• Future flexibility

• Information Exchange

• My Role

• Improved Housing Service

Lessons

Final Phase