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CIMug Presentation on ERCOT Lessons Learned

By John Moseley P.E.,

Principal for Model Architecture and Integration Network Modeling Group

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Keep it Simple

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Define the “End Goals” Define the “Stretch Goals” Define the “Good to Haves” Don’t get them confused

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Design Flexibility into the Your System

• Nothing is Forever

Schema isn’t static Business needs change

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Be Receptive and Open, but its not a Democracy

• Not every situation is win-win.

Decisions have to be made, not everyone is happy

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Be Proactive

• Advance communications of

possible issues.

• Bad solutions are often the

result of compressed timelines.

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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.

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Be Vigilant part 2

• Vendor Implementations, Ask Many

Many Questions.

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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.

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