Website Status Update

Work began two weeks ago. As part of Inspired Architech' standard project management procedures, you have received the following email from the project's team leader:

Dear Project Manager.

The website is progressing well. The home page has received approval, and our current focus is on collating the product information that is needed for the rest of the website. I've just discovered that the photographer has had a family emergency and will no longer be available for the scheduled photo shoot next week. I tried rescheduling but they are so booked up with other work that they cannot fit the shoot in for at least 8 weeks.

Sports Warehouse management appointed several staff members to assist us in collecting the information that we need, and they have done this very well. They are a busy team, but well organised.

I have attempted to schedule the training sessions for administration staff, as they have been appointed to maintain the website after it has been set up. Although they are certainly capable of performing these functions, I am not sure that the expectation will be fulfilled.

Namely, the staff are already working at capacity, and seem to resent this extra work being put on them. It appears their administrative tasks are many and varied, and they much prefer the more customer-contact work that they otherwise undertake. They seemed to be under the impression that Inspired Architech was going to be managing the site.

But, as I stated earlier, they have been very helpful with information collection, and they are very much behind the work that we are doing here. It just appears as though website maintenance is outside what they can manage, and they have requested Inspired Architech to manage the website including adding all new products to the catalogue for the first month after launch.

My project is implementing an e-commerce website

I have this project status update and my questions are:

a. the current status of the tasks within the scheduled period

b. current risks and issues and strategies to mitigate these, where possible

c. any changes to the project and their impact on the original approved project plan.

d. any potential impacts to scope and how you will manage them.