Planning Session

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Planning Session

• Recognized need for change
• Funding
• Governance
• Value generated for sponsors, members industry
• Make it go faster!
• 1998 to be year of transition.
• Agreement on the way forward
• As outlined by R. Pindell

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Industry Value
Specs.
POSC Community Process
Company Value
LightSIP
Kern River
Short Term Value
Long Term Value
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Shared Vision

• Oil companies would like to buy software without
  large operational costs or high integration costs
  to make it more efficient.
• Also, to tear down some of the barriers that keep
  small entrepreneurial companies from entering the
  market.

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Whats under consideration in the business plan?

• Technical activities, products services
• Member activities
• Office locations
• Internal processes and structure
• Staffing
• Membership
• Funding
• Just about everything is on the table!

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Planning Session Straw Model

Maintenance (Core activities)
Cat I
POSC Projects
Cat II
JIPs Consultancy Royalty/Licensing
Cat III
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Whats in the Boxes?

• The Green Box
• POSC as a maintenance organization
• Contents of the Green Box (Examples)
• The Blue Box
• New Common Projects
• The Red Box
• JIPS
• Consultancy
• Other projects in line with purpose

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Maintenance Organization

• Maintain Support Members Customers
• Meetings publications
• Maintain Capabilities
• Business technical skills
• Working environment
• Maintain Products
• Fix problems (errors required extensions)
• Provide work-arounds
• Publish updates as patches or new releases
• Maintain standards
• Use Open Process to incorporate changes into the
  standard

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POSC Products

• Standards
• Specifications
• Infrastructure tools
• Documentation publications
• Examples Samples

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Contents of the Green Box(Examples)

• Maintenance of the specifications
• Epicentre logical data model
• Access Exchange Specifications
• Reference Data
• CGMPIP
• Base Computing Standards
• User interface Style Guide
• Inter-Application Communication
• Documentation Publications

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Contents of the Green Box(Examples)

• Maintenance of Infrastructure tools examples
• Sub-setting projection tools
• Sample subsets and projections
• Example programs (POSC Live!)
• Examples of usage
• Data Sets
• Data Loaders
• Test Validation Programs

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Contents of the Blue Box(Examples)

• Interoperability Business Objects
• Integrated EP earth model
• Shared implementation projects
• POSC/Caesar joint projects

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Contents of the Red Box(Examples)

• Consulting
• Model mapping
• On use of specifications
• On migration strategies implementations
• On extension of specifications
• Compliance assessment services
• Training
• Project Management
• Project participation

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Contents of the Red Box (contd.)

• Licensing Royalty
• Certified Training Providers
• Certified Consultants
• Compliance Certification Branding
• Business Object registration licensing

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Whats outside the Boxes?

• Activities outside of Oil Gas industry
• Develop Marketing commercial software

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Some Risks

• POSC becomes only a Maintenance organization
• Cant change quickly enough
• Might change too quickly
• Retention/growth of key players (employees,
  sponsors, members)
• Quest for revenue takes our eyes off the real
  prize

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I. Maintenance Work
II. POSC Projects
feedback on standards and specifications
using standards and specifications
III. Fee-for-Service Work
POSC Work Categories
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CompliantProducts
Stds Specs.
Industry Value
TransitionalProducts
BestPractices
POSC Community Process
Company Value
LightSIP
CompanyDeployment
Kern River
Short Term Value
Long Term Value
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Work Category I. Maintenance Work

• Budgeted as part of Work Category I
• Ongoing request tracking process
• Standards and Specification Releases
• POSC Roadmap identifies tentative future
  releases, e.g. 2.2.x in 98
• Release Proposal Document
• developed with member input (workshops)
• consensus built around scope, content, etc. (Web
  Site, member meetings, workshops)
• Release work
• Release delivery

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Work Category I. Maintenance Work

• Project Liaison Service
• POSC Roadmap identifies known outside projects
• Budgeted as part of Work Category I
• Initiated by proposals from outside projects for
  consideration
• Liaisons reviewed periodically for effectiveness
• Criteria for POSC participation Mutual and
  timely benefit to project and to membership and
  mission
• Usually non-voting committee role
• project steering committee
• technical advisory committee
• Member Communication Web Site, Member Meetings,
  infoPOSC, etc.

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Work Category II. POSC Projects

• Roadmap identifies known POSC projects
• Proposal generation
• Active proposal generation by POSC
• Member generated proposals
• Project Proposal Document
• Jointly developed by POSC proponent(s)
• Funding includes POSC fees for Open Process
  project management and participation
• Tested for relevance and priority
• Tested for adequate funding and participation
• Successful proposals become formal POSC Project
  contracts
• Project Work
• Project Delivery
• Project Integration

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Work Category III. Fee-for-Service Work

• Roadmap identifies known future service
  opportunities (generic and specific)
• POSC promotes a defined range of services with
  stated fee schedule(s)
• Proposal Generation
• Active proposal generation by POSC
• Member/industry generated proposals
• Service Provision
• Service Completion

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Work Category III. Royalties and Licenses

• POSC maintains a general policy for Royalty and
  Licensing Offerings e.g. The individual,
  commercial use of specific elements of POSC
  intellectual property should generate revenue
  intended to offset its development and
  maintenance. This contrasts with the general,
  widespread use of the primary POSC specifications
  for which membership fees provide support for
  evolution and maintenance.
• Royalty / Licensing Offering business plan
  prepared for each offering
• Either tied to specification release license
  agreement
• Or part of a separate agreement
• Periodic review of the effectiveness of each
  offering (revenue, costs, effect on take-up, etc.)