1.6 Project Maturity Score and Benchmark

Maturity Score

Attributes

Schedule

Cost

Requirement

Technical Understanding

Technical Difficulty

Commercial

Operations and support

Total

Project Stage: Preliminary Design Review

Benchmark

6

6

7

6

6

7

7

45

Current Project

7

7

7

7

7

6

6

47

Explanation

Commercial: finalisation of block contracts has been delayed. The impending contract signatures will close a significant commercial risk.

Operations and Support: support system activities are progressing with planned lead in reviews and the detailed design review for the support system scheduled in 2010.

Schedule, cost, technical understanding and technical difficulty attributes are rated higher than the benchmark for this stage.