1. Requirements Definition Phase ‘Strawman’ Plan & Assumptions Feedback
Project Nexus
Requirements Definition Phase
‘Strawman’ Plan & Assumptions Feedback
3rd June 2009
Shirley Wheeler

2. UNC Project Nexus Planning Assumptions Feedback & Responses
5 Responses Received
Concern raised re length of time for Legal Drafting Task prior to any Topic/workstream conclusion (66 days)
Assumption that Workstream’s task not complete until all Legal Drafting finished. Some workgroups will finish early and therefore legal drafting can commence early. (May want to wait until all workgroups concluded).
Supportive of approach although challenging. Additional checkpoints to ensure workgroups will deliver the requirements necessary to continue to the next stage of project development
This activity should be carried out within the Workstream and the ToR showing the interaction between the Workstream & Workgroups should reflect this
Plan not readable when presented in PowerPoint. Can the project file be issued?
Plan in PowerPoint shows context of the high-level plan. First timetable showing dates of individual workshops has been issued. ‘Monitoring’ of progress within Workstream yet to be discussed and finalised, but will probably be via ‘Key Milestone Report’ – RAG.

3. UNC Project Nexus Planning Assumptions Feedback & Responses (cont)
Less time should be allocated to discussing current process.
Keep the review of the current processes to a minimum and amend the workgroup timetable if this review period requires less time.
Consider having an independent Design Authority
Need to discuss with the industry on what is required and how this will operate
All workgroups should be lead by xoserve
Each workgroup will need to decide who should take the lead
Plan doesn’t seem to recognise any dependencies between Topic workgroups
Plan does cater for dependencies, however, it is not possible to run the workshops serially.
Topic workgroups overlap. There are several workgroups at the end of November. Resources and cross-over issues difficult to manage
Cut-over issues should be managed by Workstream. Detailed workshop timetable indicates that there is only one workshop each day.