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Managing A Migration Project
Neil Phinney
EMS Users Group
June 7, 1999
First Rule of Project ManagementFirst Rule of Project Management
Choose from the following
• Low Cost• Fast Delivery• Quality SystemBut you can’t have all three !
Generation & Transmission Generation & Transmission CooperativeCooperative
Serving >650,000 Customers Facilities in 45 Counties Winter Peaking 1999 Peak Demand > 3,100 MW 350+ miles of Transmission 91.5% of Load Outside CA
10 members
Delivered in 1986 2 - 300 MB Disks Aydin Display Generators 108 RTUs Mosaic Mapboard
Legacy EMS
Hardware Gould \ SEL \ Encore CPUs
Load Estimation Demand Side Management Forecasting Interchange Scheduling Member Billing
Legacy EMS
Applications
Data Exchange
EMS Support Staff
Small Staff - 6 people 2- Analysts
1 - Engineer 3- Technicians No Formal Project
Team No Additional Staff
Replacement Approaches
Phased
Migration
Fork Lift
Bid Process
Bids Mailed - 4/15/98 6 vendors 5 Bids Received 3 Evaluated
Bid Awarded - 9/10/98 First Project Meeting - 10/2/98
RFI - FALL 1996
SECI’s Decision
Reasons For Selection
No project team Gain experience Cash flow spread Logical contract terminated Overall project cost less
Applications delivered as required
Project Implementation Plan
Stage 1 Real Time Data Interface
L A N I U D L Duplicate data base
Gateway
Project Implementation Plan Stage 2 Transaction Evaluation
Standalone UC/TE
Project Implementation Plan
Stage 3 Scheduling & Accounting
Historian
Control Criteria
I T S
Project Implementation Plan
Stage 4 System Stage
Integrated
Interfaced
Project Implementation Plan Stage 5 AGC and SCADA
DSM
Load Estimation
Load Forecasting
Listening &
Parallel
Project Implementation Plan
Stage 6 Mapboard
3 X 2 Video
Board
Project Implementation Plan
Stage 7 System Acceptance
RTU Cut Over
System Testing
Status of Project
Stage 2 - Transaction
Evaluation
Stage 3 - Scheduling &
Accounting
Stage 1 - Real Time Interface
Lessons Learned
Managing
Expectations
Project Coordination
Maintaining Schedule
Scope of Work
Lessons Learned
Legacy Work
Project
Control
Training
Office Space
Testing
Overall Conclusion
Migration Complex
Advantages Outweigh
Reservations
Overall Pleased
The Money Theorem
Power = Work / Time
Postulate 1: Knowledge is Power Postulate 2: Time is Money
Knowledge = Work /Money
Then Less You Know The More You Earn
Money = Work / Knowledge