august 13-14, 2007 tptf meeting texas nodal program update jerry sullivan

August 13-14, 2007TPTF Meeting

Texas Nodal Program Update

Jerry Sullivan

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Agenda

Item Purpose Page

Program Status For Information 3

Schedule performance For Information 4

Changes since the last Market Readiness Seminar

For Information 8


CostScheduleScope / Quality

Legend

Summary

Overall program status remains amber

Green

The program is spending to budget through July’s actuals.

Cost at complete dependent on achieving quality and schedule

targets.

Amber Amber

Baseline 1 & 2 were approved by the BoD on

July 17 and changes are now being

incorporated.

Red

Amber

Green Estimate at Complete = < $263m

Estimate at Complete < $263m + 10%

Estimate at Complete >$263m + 10%

Go-live = 12/1/08

Go-live = <30 days+

Go-live = >30 days+

Program is aligned with current protocols

Program is aligned to previous protocol version

Program is not aligned to protocols

Confirming ability of key vendors to incorporate Baseline 1 & 2 within

original schedule.

Evaluating downstream lead/cycle time and productivity for

improvements.

Scope/Quality

Nodal

Cost

ScheduleScope/Quality

Schedule

Cost

Nodal Delivery

Nodal Delivery

Amber

Current product quality is not sufficient for Nodal launch

Most Nodal products currently achieve quality standards

All Nodal products currently achieve quality standards

Testing Czar being appointed to provide overall

testing focus.

Increasing End User engagement in User Interface

reviews.


Schedule Performance – Critical Path

http://nodal.ercot.com/about/po/tim/kd/timeline_0803.pdf

Paper copy distributed at meeting


Schedule Performance – key recent milestones completed

Milestone Planned Date

Actual Date Comments

Start the Point to Point (PtP) Checkout

Jun 01, 2007 Jun 01, 2007 We have completed 68% of PtP testing with an error rate of 4%. 20 out of 39 MPs (51%) have completed PtP. 46,802 points out of 68,476 (projected) points have been tested. 11,547 points remaining.

Start ICCP Validation Jun 01, 2007 Jun 01, 2007 Testing on schedule.

MMS Security Constrained Economic Dispatch (SCED) Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) Complete

Jun 15, 2007 Jun 15, 2007 SCED FAT completed by ERCOT MMS teamSCED FAT details (e.g., scenarios, use cases, results) to be reviewed with TPTF tomorrow.

Priority 1 Web Services Test Site - “Sandbox”

Jun 30, 2007 Jul 16, 2007 Delay in obtaining design documents from ABB (MMS Vendor).

Within 30 days of planned milestone dateOn schedule

More than 30 days from planned milestone

√√

√√

√√

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√√Milestone Complete


Schedule Performance – key Future milestones

Within 30 days of planned milestone dateOn schedule

More than 30 days from planned milestone

Milestone Planned Date

Forecast Date

Comments

Early EDS 3 SCED Validation Oct 1, 2007 revised to Jul 30, 2007

Aug 24, 2007 Delay in migrating and configuring application across environments.

EDS 2 State Estimator (SE) Tuning and Verification

Sep 01, 2007 Sep 01, 2007 PI Consultant was not available on time, but effort is on track. (State Estimator reports delivery mechanism to be determined).

Priority 2 Web Services Test Site - “Sandbox”

Aug 31, 2007 Aug 31, 2007 6 SCED interfaces will be delivered on Aug 31.

The rest of the interfaces will be incrementally delivered by Sep 26.

Enlist all QSEs with Resources in EDS

Oct 01, 2007 Oct 01, 2007

Sep 26, 2007

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The real business of testing and integrating exposes challenges in downstream projects, however we are making major strides

FAT

Integration Project

Projects

EMS, MMS etc

iDev iFAT

Integration Testing

ITEST

EDS EDSeEDS Sandbox

RM

RM

RM RM

RM RM RM

Improvements in Dev cycle time 1st Sandbox - 0.5 interface / week 2nd Sandbox - 1 interface / week 3rd Sandbox – 10 interface / week

Issues being addressed: Establishing reusable components Stabilizing design for NMMS integration Communicating upstream dependencies

Improvements in Testing cycle time 1st Sandbox - 0.25 services / day 2nd Sandbox - 0.84 services / day

Issues being addressed: Involvement of ITEST team in upstream

activities Access to stable env to begin test scripts Testing Czar has been appointed

Improvements in migration and configuration MMS migration time – reduced from 5 weeks to 3 days Web Services migration time – 14 days to 3 hours

Issues being addressed: Implementation of automation tools for configuration and

release Communicating upstream dependencies for architecture

and migration

SCED FAT – Completed on schedule NMMS FAT – Failed with Sev 1 defects and

sent back to vendor for evaluation

(Factory Acceptance Test)

(Development and Unit Test of Integration) (Integration Factory Acceptance Test)

(Integration Testing)

(Pre Early Delivery System) (Early Delivery System)

LegendRM Release Management (Manages the migration of applications

across hardware)ERCOT Testing Phases

Gains in productivity and challenges being addressed


Market Readiness Update – Metric Map Progress

C1 thru C9

C1 thru C9

R1

E5

E1-4

R1

E5

E1-4CRR2CRR2

MP7

MP8

MP9

MP12-2

MP13-2

CO1

CO2

EMO4

MP7

MP8

MP9

MP12-2

MP13-2

CO1

CO2

EMO4

EMO9-2MP6-2E9 EMO9-2MP6-2E9

MP1MP1

E1-3E1-3

MO2MO2 MP17-1MP17-1 MP16MP16

E6E6

E4

R2

E4

R2

CRR4

E13

CRR4

E13

EMO3

EMO2

EMO3

EMO2

EMO7

E8

EMO7

E8

CO3CO3 MP10MP10

CO7

CO6

CO5

CO4

CO7

CO6

CO5

CO4 E15

E14

E2

E15

E14

E2

MO6

MO3

MO1

MO6

MO3

MO1

MP17-3

CO10

MP17-3

CO10

MP13-1

EMO8

MP13-1

EMO8

MP17-2MP17-2

CRR1

CRR5

CO8

CRR1

CRR5

CO8MO5-5MO5-5

EMO6EMO6EMO5EMO5

N1N1

MP5

N2

MP5

N2

E1-1E1-1

MP14MP14

EMO1EMO1

CRR1CRR1

E12E12

E1-2E1-2 MP12MP12

MP11

CO9

MP11

CO9

N3

MP6-1

EMO9-1

N3

MP6-1

EMO9-1

MP4

MP2

MP3

MP4

MP2

MP3 CRR3CRR3

MP12-1MP12-1

MO5-2MO5-2 MO5-3MO5-3

MO5-4MO5-4

MO4

MO5-1

MO4

MO5-1

E11

E10

E7

E3

E11

E10

E7

E3

MO5-T1MO5-T1MO5-T2MO5-T2


Market Readiness Update – Metric Map Progress

Market Participant MetricsQSE with Resources Connectivity to EDS Environment (MP2)QSE with Resources Upload of SCED Offers to EDS (MP3)ICCP Point to Point Telemetry Test (MP5)MP Registration Activities (MP11)MP EDS-2 Trials Participation (MP14)

ERCOT Internal MetricsERCOT Staff Completes Training (E1) Develop Nodal Operating Guides (E6)ERCOT Staffed for Texas Nodal Operations (E8)Develop TN Procedures (E9)

Network Model management MetricsERCOT Telemetry Alarm Processing (N1)

The Metric Inventory Document has complete Metric to Date cross-reference.

The Readiness Metrics Dashboard will provide details on when metrics will begin to be measured

Release Metrics TPTF ReviewTPTF

Approval TAC ApprovalDashboard Production

ReleaseERCOT BoD

ReportIteration 1 MP Engagement 23-Jul 23-Jul 2-Aug 27-Aug 18-Sep

Iteration 2MP2, MP3, MP5, MP11,

MP13, E1, E6, E8, E9, N1 13-Aug 27-Aug 6-Sep End of September, 2007 16-Oct

Iteration 3 TBD 10-Sep 24-Sep 5-Oct TBD ~ End of November 13-Nov


Hall of Fame / Wall of Shame*

The following QSEs with Resources secured an EDS3 testing Slot by the August 8 deadline (MP2 / MP3):

Austin Energy American Electric Power ANP Funding Brazos Electric Coop BP Energy Calpine Power Management Coral Power City Public Services Direct Energy Eagle Energy Partners Exelon FPL

2/3rd signed up in first three days of scheduling

* Experience in other countries has proven the Terminology based on Hall of Fame / Wall of Shame to be effective. Current as of Friday 08.10.2007

The following QSEs with Resources failed to secure an EDS3 testing Slot by the August 8 deadline (MP2 / MP3):

Constellation Energy BTU - Bryan Texas Utilities (APX Client) Fulcrum (APX Client) IPA Marketing (APX Client) Scurry Wind (APX Client) Topaz (APX Client)

Formosa Garland Power and Light LCRA - Lower Colorado River NRG Occidental Power Svcs Reliant Rio Nogales Suez Energy Marketing South Texas Electric Coop Tenaska Power Services Texas Utilities Westar

Hall of Fame

Wall of Shame


Market Readiness Update – Hall of Fame*

The following QSEs and TSPs have Completed 100 percent Point to Point (PtP) Testing As of August 10 (MP5):

AEN - Austin Energy AEP - American Electric Power APX BP Energy Calpine Power Management Constellation Energy CPE - CenterPoint Energy Exelon Garland Power and Light GEUS - Greenville NRG OXY - Occidental Power Svcs Reliant STEC - South Texas Electric Coop Suez Energy Marketing TMPA - Texas Muni Power Auth OnCor TXU - Texas Utilities

* Experience in other countries has proven the Terminology based on Hall of Fame / Wall of Shame to be effective. Current as of Friday 08.10.2007

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