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Project: North Quay customer enquiry portal
Week ending: 13 November 2026
Audience: sponsor Alex Morgan

Friday catch-up / current position:
Overall project status from delivery lead Mia Chen: RED.

Acceptance: 20 of 20 checks now pass. Sam fixed the duplicate-email and footer-address defects on 10 November. Both are closed.
Supplier approved shared-mailbox use in writing on 11 November. That permission issue is closed too.
New problem: supplier now says its production change window is unavailable before 27 November. This is the earliest possible window, not an agreed replacement pilot date. The currently approved pilot date remains 24 November. Mia says it is at risk; Alex has not approved a revised date.

Alex approved 90 minutes of staff cover on 11 November. Training is still booked for 17 November. Jordan sent the invitations on 12 November, and all 12 staff have accepted.

Finance note dated 13 November:
Approved budget remains £18,000.
Spent to date £10,100.
Committed but not yet spent £4,400.
Forecast total cost at completion is now £19,200, including actual spend and commitments. Do not add spent and committed again.
The £1,200 above the approved budget is a request awaiting Alex's decision by 16 November. No extra funding has been approved.

Mia will ask the supplier for an earlier production window by 16 November.
Jordan will run the training session on 17 November.
Someone needs to update the support rota before the pilot. We did not assign an owner or agree a calendar due date.
Alex needs to decide whether to move the pilot date once Mia has the supplier's response. No deadline for that decision was agreed.
Customer satisfaction survey remains an idea only. Nothing has been assigned or approved.
