9 Reusable Methods and Intellectual Property

9.1 Core reusable assets

Discovery questionnaire and asset responsibility map.

Canonical asset, interval, event, bid, constraint and obligation data model.

Availability and loss taxonomy with client-specific mappings.

Incident, preliminary report, investigation and corrective action workflow.

GPS and compliance evidence register.

Dispatch and off-target event analysis notebook.

Maintenance window optimisation model.

BESS and hybrid optimisation library with configurable constraints.

Model validation, backtesting and change approval templates.

Executive report, technical appendix and 90 day roadmap templates.

9.2 Quality controls for every analytical service

Define the decision, user, authority and consequences.

Document source systems, time bases, units, transformations and missing data.

Record technical, contractual and regulatory constraints separately.

Create a baseline or counterfactual appropriate to the question.

Test calculations against known events and independent checks.

State uncertainty, exclusions and conditions under which the result should not be used.

Obtain client validation before operationalising any recommendation.

Version and monitor the method after deployment.