Settlements Internal Readiness

March 21, 2013Brent Wilcox Supervisor Of Settlements

INTERNAL READINESS – SETTLEMENTS OVERVIEW

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SPP Internal Readiness

Key Notes Before We Get Started:– Focus of the SPP Internal Readiness plan is on Staff

Readiness. – System readiness and Market Participant Readiness are

covered under other plans.

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Current Status: SPP Internal Readiness – Feb 11th Scorecard

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The Internal Readiness Status for SPP is currently green.

Internal readiness activities in each department are currently on track.

• NS indicates the related Readiness activities have not started.

• N/A indicates the readiness area is not applicable .

• Blue (B) indicates activities for a readiness area are complete.

Department Influence Overall Status People Process Technology

Settlements H G G G GOperations Support H G G G GOperations Engineering H G G G GIT Applications H G G G GEngineering - TCR H G G G N/ARegulatory/Legal M G G G N/AMarket Monitoring M G G G GMarket Design M G G G GIT Enterprise Operations M G G G GInternal Audit M G G G NSEngineering M G G G GCustomer Training M G G B N/ACustomer Relations M G G G GCredit and Risk Management M G G G GCompliance M G G G GAccounting/Purchasing M G G G GReliability Standards L G G G GRegional Entity L G G G GProject Management L G G G N/ACorporate Services L G G G GCommunications L G G G N/ABusiness Process Improvement L G G G G

GSPP Overall Internal Readiness Status

Calculate SPP Overall StatusDepartment Influence

High Influence:

Readiness Activities are highly critical to the success of Integrated Marketplace. Delayed readiness activities will have an impact on SPP’s ability to conduct market trials and Go-Live.

Medium Influence:

Readiness Activities will impact the success of Integrated Marketplace. Delayed readiness activities may increase implementation risk.

Low Influence:

Readiness Activities are not expected to impact the success of Integrated Marketplace.

The SPP Overall Internal Status weighs departments differently based on the criticality of a department’s readiness activities for the success of the Integrated Marketplace Go-Live.

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Department Influence

Accounting/Purchasing MBusiness Process Improvement LCommunications LCompliance MCorporate Services LCustomer Relations MCustomer Training MEngineering HInternal Audit MIT Applications HIT Enterprise Operations MMarket Design MMarket Monitoring MOperations HProject Management LRegional Entity LRegulatory MReliability Standards LRisk Management MSettlements H

SPP Internal Readiness

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SPP Internal Readiness

3 Components of all SPP Internal Readiness Plans:

• People

• Process

• Technology

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Settlements Internal Readiness

People

• Organization– Department Structure, Team Responsibilities

• Job Design– Competencies, Job Descriptions

• Training– All Level 0-3 Training (Overviews, Deep Dives, Job Tasks,

Self Study Modules)– All Staff required to take training

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Settlements Internal Readiness

People

• Knowledge Transfer/SME Development (19 functions)

• DIL (Day in the Life)– Departmental and SPP Wide

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Settlements Internal Readiness

Process

• Process (19 functions)

• Process Documentation– First Drafts Completed 3/1/2013– Final Working Versions due May 2013

• Inter-Department Communications/Handoffs

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Settlements Internal Readiness

Process

• SSAE16 Controls Development– Final Control Language due November 2013

• Update Business Recovery Plan

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Settlements Internal Readiness

Technology

• Access/Security– Defining Roles– Slotting Analysts into those roles

• Reporting– External– Internal

• Transition to production

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Settlements Internal Readiness

Settlements Status

• Over 600 Tasks In Plan– Tasks are broken out into Critical and Non-critical

• Over 130 Items Flagged as Critical in the Settlements plan

• Currently in Green Status

• Approximately 30% Complete

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Internal Readiness – Contacts

Settlements:– Brent Wilcox

SPP:– Philip Bruich

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Questions

Integrated Marketplace

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