Objectives

The ELKD project [ELKD 96] was a definition phase with the aim to developing a clear, cohesive understanding of the needs of the Electricity Supply Industry (ESI) sector generally and the specific requirements of the user organisations, P.P.C. and Vattenfall, leading to a full pilot study, ELEKTRA. This definition project sought :

• to define specific requirements for both P.P.C. and Vattenfall for specific processes requiring re-engineering
• to provide the overarching rationale that binds the application areas of P.P.C. and Vattenfall for the pilot project
• to indicate the kind of generic business processes that will be applicable not only to P.P.C. and Vattenfall but also to other European companies within the ESI sector
• to produce a definition of the pilot study project which will form the basis for evaluating a continued phase of the project.

As one of the initial developers of the EKD method, the contribution  of  C.R.I. was to participate to the  transfer of the EKD knowledge and experiences to P.P.C., Vattenfall and Singular.
Furthermore, the C.R.I. has successfully applied the results of the NATURE project for the definition of the ELKD Change Management Approach and tailored it to the ESI sector. Within this approach the focus is put on situational decision decomposition and situational decision refinement [Rolland 94].

Duration
The project duration was 6 months and ended in August 1996.

Consortium

• Public Power Corporation (P.P.C.), Greece
• Vattenfall AB, Sweden
• Singular S.A., Greece
• SYSLAB at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, KTH/SU, Sweden
• UMIST, Manchester, UK
• Centre de Recherche en Informatique (CRI), University of Paris 1 - Sorbonne

[ELDK96] : ELKD, Final Report, The ELKD consortium, August 1996.

[Rolland94] : C. Rolland, G. Grosz, "A General Framework for Describing the Requirements Engineering Process", IEEE Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics (ICSMC94), San Antonio, Texas, October 1994