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