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PROJECT STATUS REPORT Customer portal rebuild Week ending 9 October 2026 · Project manager: Deepa Raghavan · Sponsor: William Carter |
Overall status At risk Payments integration is one week behind. Launch date still achievable.
68% Work complete | $412k Spent of $600k budget | 7 Weeks to launch | 3 Open risks |
Summary
The new login, account and billing pages are finished and in testing. Integration with the payments provider is running one week late because their sandbox was down for four days. We have moved two developers onto it and expect to recover the time by 30 October.
Progress this week
- Finished account settings and saved addresses pages
- Completed accessibility review; 11 of 14 issues fixed
- Ran usability tests with 8 customers; average task success 92%
Next week
- Finish payments integration and start end-to-end testing
- Fix the remaining 3 accessibility issues
- Draft the customer launch email with marketing
Milestones
Milestone | Due | Status |
|---|---|---|
Designs signed off | 4 September | Done |
Core pages built | 2 October | Done |
Payments integration | 23 October | 1 week late |
User acceptance testing | 13 November | Not started |
Launch | 27 November | On plan |
Risks and issues
Risk | Impact | Owner | Action |
|---|---|---|---|
Payments sandbox outages | High | Tomasz Nowak | Daily check-in with provider; mock service for testing |
Load testing not yet booked | Medium | Grace Liu | Book test window for week of 9 November |
Support team training time | Low | Deepa Raghavan | Record training videos in advance |
Budget
Budget | Spent | Forecast | |
|---|---|---|---|
Labour | $480,000 | $338,000 | $492,000 |
Software and hosting | $80,000 | $54,000 | $78,000 |
Contingency | $40,000 | $20,000 | $30,000 |
Total | $600,000 | $412,000 | $600,000 |
Decisions needed
- Approve $12,000 from contingency for two weeks of extra developer time (William Carter, by 14 October)
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