CIMug Presentation on ERCOT Lessons Learned By John Moseley P.E., Principal for Model Architecture and Integration Network Modeling Group <Manual Date> – <Manual Filename> 1 Texas Nodal
Lesson: Keep it Simple or Define the “End Goals” Define the “Stretch Goals” Define the “Good to Haves” Don’t get them confused <Manual Date> – <Manual Filename> 2 Texas Nodal
Lesson: Design Flexibility into the Your System - Nothing is Forever Schema isn’t static Business needs change <Manual Date> – <Manual Filename> 3 Texas Nodal
Lesson: Be Receptive and Open, but its not a Democracy ------- Not every situation is win-win. Decisions have to be made, not everyone is happy <Manual Date> – <Manual Filename> 4 Texas Nodal
Lesson: Be Proactive ------- • Advance communications of possible issues. • Bad solutions are often the result of compressed timelines. <Manual Date> – <Manual Filename> 5 Texas Nodal
Lesson: Be Vigilant ------- The “evil” kludge • Its often times easier to break the data than to fix an application • The system that is the most flexible is the system that ends up supporting the most workarounds. <Manual Date> – <Manual Filename> 6 Texas Nodal
Lesson: Be Vigilant part 2 ------- Vendor Implementations, Ask Many Many Questions. <Manual Date> – <Manual Filename> 7 Texas Nodal
Lesson: Amateurs talk strategy, Generals talk logistics. ------- Schema design while important, is not as important as the business process to acquire and maintain the data that populates the schema. <Manual Date> – <Manual Filename> 8 Texas Nodal
NMMS Development Questions? <Manual Date> – <Manual Filename> 9 Texas Nodal
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