Reply To: NDTp Editorial: A Year of Building Foundations – December 2020

[Peter El Hajj]

On 04/12/2020 at 13:57, Lawrence Chapman said:

CDBB published its Road Map two years ago. I would like to see an update on what items have been delivered to date, what’s is running late,  & what’s ahead of schedule. is tis available please?

Thank you @Lawrence .

We are currently updating the Roadmap to reflect our progress and learning over the last two years.  Hopefully, this will then provide a great view of what needs to come next.  It’s amazing to see how the agenda has moved forward, despite the challenges of Covid.

I will give an update here in a written format and I have included a snapshot of the first roadmap with icons to show completion or ongoing:

• Approach Stream: Completed
  • Published The Approach to Delivering a National Digital Twin for the United Kingdom
  • Published The Pathways toward an Information Management Framework
• Governance Stream: Progress made last year and scaled back during 2020 due to cut in budget (c19)
  • Preliminary work on roll-out and IMF ongoing governance
  • Preliminary work on benefits realisation
• Commons Stream:  Progress made on technical outputs
  • Published Top Level Ontology survey paper and published Reference Data Library and Industry Data Models survey paper to inform the IMF technical choices. Currently running conversation on the IMF Network. 
  • Shared first version of the Glossary
  • Launched the IMF Network
  • Early thinking on benefits Blog and webinar
  • Ongoing work: IMF consultation report, Legal roundtables (outcome report), Integration Architecture report, IMF Process Model, Security Pathway
• Digital Twin Hub Stream: Although this stream didn’t feature heavily on the first roadmap, it turned out to be a big part of the delivery vehicle. Some highlights:
  • 800 members
  • DT register
  • Suppliers register
  • Open source data register
  • Community calendar
  • Digital Twin Talks series
  • Monthly Editorials
  • Standards landscape and roadmap consultation
• Enablers Stream: Progress made last year and scaled back during 2020 due to cut in budget (c19)
  • Preliminary work on identifying strategic risks and opportunities
• Change Stream: 
  • Developed stakeholder map of over a thousand individuals 
  • Developed Engagement plans for key stakeholders
  • Developed Communication plan
  • Organised a weekly Gemini Call taking place every Tuesday 10:30 – 11:00, open to all members of the DTHub  (on average 50+ attendees each week)
  • Gemini Programme for collaboration on NDTp activities
  • Digital Twin Toolkit (Gemini Project) – a resource to support those developing digital twins with use cases framework, business case template, implementation roadmap