Mr James Watson 
 
Email: [email address] 
18 June 2009 
Our Ref: FOI 2009/88-F0060593 
Dear Mr Watson, 
 
Re: Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 – Request for Information 
 
Thank you for your email which was received by the University on 27 May 2009 timed 14:09, 
requesting information about: 
 
 
“Please provide me with the organisational structure for the Student Lifecycle Project. For 
each position please specify start date, end date and the cost to the University of Glasgow.” 
 
 
 
University’s Response 
 
Please find attached the organisational structure for the Student Lifecycle Project and the start 
and end date for each position in appendices 1 and 2. 
 
The total estimated cost to the project for the functional team (Functional Leads and team 
members)   is £1,559,926 and for the Project Office and Change Management teams (Project 
Directors, UoG Project Manager, Change and Comms Manager) £695,698. These are 
estimates – in most cases the costs relate to anticipated costs of back fill which is still being 
put in place.       
 
A fixed price contract is in place with the supplier and costs cannot therefore be ascribed to 
particular roles or specific start and end dates be given. 
 
For the technical team (Technical Lead and developers, Portal and Warehouse/BI Leads, 
Systems Administrator and DBA) there will be a pool of internal resources which will be 
supplemented with some additional external resource and used as required in accordance 
with the Project Management Plan.  This will be defined as part of the detailed planning 
 
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activity currently being undertaken.  The current budget estimate for costs of internal technical 
resources is £661,376 and the estimated fte for internal technical resources is 8.1.   
 
The Testing Lead and Testers roles will be filled at a later stage in the project and the 
estimated cost for these roles is £219,000.    
 
 
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does not give the applicant or whoever receives the information any right to re-use it in such a 
way that might infringe the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (for example, by making 
multiple copies, publishing or otherwise distributing the information to other individuals and the 
public). The Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (Consequential Modifications) Order 
2004 ensured that Section 50 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (“CDPA”) 
applies to the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (“FOISA”).   
 
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rights and remedies available to it pursuant to the CDPA and common law. Further information 
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Yours sincerely, 
 
 
 
 
Data Protection and Freedom of Information Office 

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