Weekly Meeting #22
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1. Participants & Attendance
Name | Company | Role |
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Teemu Salonen | Valio | Pricing Analyst |
Omar Bendada | Ben Consulting Services | Business Analyst |
Kaipia Emmi | Valio | Head of Business Development |
Terry Gardener | Ben Consulting Services c | Project Manager |
Sofia Simaria | Ben Consulting Services | Proxy Product Owner |
Tomi Toivonen | Valio | Pricing Manager |
2. Project Updates
New BA joining for both projects - Peter Jarvis to lead both projects due to S4 slippage
Sprint 5 is in the 4th week of the sprint but we may need to extend due to
Missing elements from Valio: Margin Calculator; Through Billing;
Technical Bugs in Valio CPQ, (managed by the team)
Data readiness for UAT phase e etc
UAT is due to start on 10th Nov for 4 weeks (This is a result of the above points)
Training / Soft go live will commence in Dec (date to be agreed)
Initial 4 users onboarded
Soft go live
This was not part of the initial planning for the project and has impacted the project budget
Agreement on Soft go live reached with a Dec date being scheduled
Training will be managed by customer
Due to S4 slippage any quotes will be migrated by customer once S4 operational
Potential S4 go live will occur 15th March (TBC)
Initial Zilliant support can be removed. The development team is dealing directly with the Zilliant support team to manage this work

3. Project Progress Overview
Workstream / Deliverable | Status | Key Notes |
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Functional Workshops | DONE | |
Environment Setup | DONE | |
SCD writing | DONE | Changes being reflected in yellow |
Backlog | DONE | |
Technical Doc Spec | DONE |
Legend: DONE | IN PROGRESS | NOT STARTED | AT RISK
4. Issues & Risks
Item | Description | Status |
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5. New Features
6. Decisions
- Phased rollout of training starting December '25
7. Next Steps / New Actions
Task | Comment / Description | Due Date | Status |
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7. Open Questions / Topics discussed during meeting
Item | Description | Status |
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Agreement on Client Show and Tell date being moved to 6/7 Nov |
8. Project Timeline

Phase / | Target Dates | Status | |
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Design Design | Workshop | May – June | 🟢 |
Environment Setup | May – June | 🟢 | |
Build | CPQ Implementation | June – October | 🟢 |
Data Management | June – October | 🟢 | |
System Interface | June - October | 🟡 | |
Deployment | June - November | 🟡 | |
UAT | Bug correction | November | 🟡 |
Training Session | November - Jan '26 | 🟡 | |
Go-Live Prep | TBC |
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