UK Link Programme Dashboard Reporting Date 07042014 Executive

UK Link Programme Dashboard Reporting Date: 07/04/2014 Executive summary • • • UK Link Programme fully mobilised across all workstreams Minor delay experienced in High Level Design – work on going to recover plan during Detailed Design Overall programme RAG status is green Priorities for April Achievements in March • • • Programme mobilised: Wipro resources landed, governance structure defined, plan partially developed High Level Design (HLD) workshops progressing and Business Process Design Docs (BPDD) drafted First transition topic (SPA) presented to the Nexus Workgroup Data Cleansing Forum took place with good engagement from the industry Design Build Implement (DBI) contract signature achieved Commercial agreement also reached with Client Side Advisor to support the next phase of the programme Review and approval of all BPDDs. Further develop plan with critical path, cross stream dependencies and contingency identification Approve Test Strategy Continued analysis of Level 1 transition topics Develop Mhub pack for release to shippers Increased 1: 1 level engagement with shippers particularly around take up of class 2 and 3 products Industry Engagement Comms Reporting Date 2014 Q 1 2014 Q 2 IE Comms. 30/04 Test Strategy 30/09 Interface Inventory, Transition Plan, Test Plan, File Format 31/05 H/L Arch & Integration Design 2015 Q 1 2014 Q 4 2014 Q 3 15/12 31/12 H/L Cutover Test Plan Scenarios 2015 Q 2 2015 Q 3 01/06 Start of Market Trials, L/L Cutover Plan ~31/03 Transition Mods Approved 2015 Q 4 28/08 End of Market Trials Programme Milestones Key Milestone High Level Design Complete Detailed Design Complete Xoserve UAT Complete Industry Testing Start Cutover & Implementation Baseline Date 18/04/2014 29/08/14 28/05/2015 01/06/2015 01/10/2015 Current Planned Date 30/04/2014 29/08/14 28/05/2015 01/06/2015 01/10/2015 Key Dependencies Risk Summary Timescales: delay in HLD completion Resources: SME resource split between EU Reform and UKLP Resources: Deployment options analysis consuming resource time – potential to impact timelines Aggregated Programme RAG Impact Date 18/04/14 01/04/2014 Mitigation Dependency Date Required Impact if missed 01/06//15 Participants will be unable to take part in market trials testing which may result in issues with data flows and processes post implementation. On going Implementation not possible without approval of relevant Mods. Potential customer impacts if transition arrangements are not clearly defined and understood Re-planning undertaken to mitigate delay Planning activities to ensure SME time is used as efficiently as possible. Risk cannot be fully mitigated as there is a limited pool of SME resource Future requests for analysis are agreed by the COB with consideration of impact on October 15 timeline. Market participant systems ready for market trials Approval of UNC and IGT Mods related to UKLP (including transition Mods) Status