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- Mining project requirements - techniques to use before and after an interview
- Tom Mochal recently provided excellent tips on interviewing techniques to gather project requirements. Conducting a good interview can be a daunting task -- particularly if you are interviewing a stakeholder who holds a high position in the organization, or has a reputation for making people uncomfortable. Good preparation and good...
- Tags: Technique, Interviewee, Question, Interview, Mentors, Tom, Joe Goss
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Mining project requirements -- techniques to use before and after an interview
- Conducting a good interview to gather project requirements can be a daunting task -- particularly if you are interviewing a stakeholder who holds a high position in the organization, or has a reputation for making people uncomfortable. Good preparation and good follow-up are critical factors in a successful interview. ...
- Tags: Technique, Interview, Joe Goss, Productivity
- Download resources 2008-03-20
- Develop a Web site accessible by visually impaired users and comply with the law
- At a large public university, I recently assisted a project team in testing a Web-based application we made available to several hundred thousand alumni. Application usability was a key success criterion for the project. Recognizing that numerous alumni might be blind, color blind, or have some other visual impairment, we...
- Tags: Alumni, Web, Impairment, Web Site, Tool, Screen Reader, Channel Management, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Productivity, Internet, Marketing, Joe Goss
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
- Develop a Web site accessible by visually impaired users and comply with the law
- Poorly designed Web pages create a significant challenge to someone who cannot see your Web pages. However, it is easy to make good decisions about page design -- once you understand the Section 508 standards and have some tools in your back pocket. By using the tools outlined, you broaden...
- Tags: Web, Web Site, Web Page, Joe Goss, Channel Management, Web Site Development, Productivity, Marketing, Internet
- Download resources 2008-02-21
- Sustain and broaden customer focus outside of your projects
- As a project manager or business analyst, you have an important role outside the scope of customer projects. Your work outside the context of projects helps to identify and resolve issues and concerns, and build positive relationships between IT and customer stakeholders. While stakeholders may have relied...
- Tags: Information Technology, Customer, Stakeholder, Strategy, Management, Joe Goss
- Blog posts 2008-01-30
- Create and sustain a customer focus within projects
- Whether the clients you serve are inside or outside your organization, creating and sustaining customer focus is crucial to your success as an IT department. Countless articles have heralded the destruction of information technology's ivory tower and the resurrection of an IT service closely aligned with the vision and goals...
- Tags: Project, Team, Telephone Call, Customer, Team Management, Strategy, Management, Joe Goss
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- Create and sustain a customer focus within projects
- Whether the clients you serve are inside or outside your organization, creating and sustaining customer focus is crucial to your success as an IT department. As a project manager or business analyst, you have a unique opportunity to understand your customer needs, and you can lead your IT department in...
- Tags: Information Technology, Department, Joe Goss, Strategy, Leadership, Management
- Download resources 2008-01-10
- Help your analysis team draft an actionable detailed use case
- An analysis team writes detailed use cases to describe the steps and characteristics of business processes. While use cases are often a central feature of a software requirements specification, business analysts often employ use cases in a broader context. In fact, I've used them to describe the steps and attributes...
- Tags: Joe Goss
- Blog posts 2007-12-04
- 10 reasons why use cases are indispensable to your software development project
- Well-written use case narratives (or simply "use cases") offer the analysis, development, and testing teams an invaluable guidebook. A use case different from a UML use case diagram is a formalized story that describes how someone procedurally interacts with an existing or proposed system and they should be part of...
- Tags: Software, Team, Software Development, Use Case, Analysis, Analysis Team, Joe Goss
- Blog posts 2007-11-08
- Categorize high-level requirements into use case titles for better project management
- Many business analysts use Unified Modeling Language use case diagrams to identify the actors and their high-level actions in a system. These diagrams help an analysis team clarify and understand the project domain and high-level functions. Unfortunately, UML use cases fail to tell us much about the details of a...
- Tags: Project Management, Team, Use Case, Requirement, Title, Use Case Title, Requirement Note, Team Management, Management, Joe Goss
- Blog posts 2007-10-17
- Facilitate a meeting to define what success looks like for your project
- Although most projects start enthusiastically, optimism fades quickly unless an analysis and design team gets traction and learns where it is going. Working from a project charter, the team's next step is defining typically, "What does success look like?" These high-level requirements help clarify the project's vision and give the...
- Tags: Project, Team, Requirement, Team Member, Team Management, Management, Joe Goss
- Blog posts 2007-09-25
Additional Resources
- Excel - How change existing name field data to a common format
- We have a large mailing list that includes a name field populated with First name, Middle name/Initialsif one exists, and finally Last Name. Sometimes there are periods after initials, sometimes not, and sometimes no initials at al. Is there a generic formula that doesn't have to be run...
- Tags: excel, formatting name, formula, Inge.Desmarais@..., Joe, Microsoft Excel, programming, software
- Discussion threads 2006-10-25
- GOSS Case Study: All Wales Unit (AWU)
- One of the main aims of the All Wales Unit AWU is to facilitate effective communication and information sharing between the 22 Social Services. Increased collaboration and greater partnership working between the Welsh Authorities is a long-term goal of the AWU. Provision of a secure area for developmental work also...
- Tags: Collaboration, Web Site, AWU, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Groupware, Business Structures, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance
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- Exchange - Send on behalf of
- I have recently migrated from Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2003.To illustrate my query I will create a ficticious situation.Joe Blog is the director of Blog Enterprises.Joe has 2 mailboxes - joe.blog and BlogDirectorCreated a profile in Outlook for joe.blog and need to give permission to send on behalf of BlogDirector.This...
- Tags: BlogDirector Created, e-mail, HBB, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, permission
- Discussion threads 2007-03-07
- Software Enginee
- blog rootC# Webcasts I found .net webcasts from Joe Hummel Really impressive. Howeve some of them do not play of Windows media player 10 very well.Joe Hummel's Book Is Joe Humel's Lattet book any good about C# Programming. I defenitely like hsi web cast.
- Tags: C#, .NET, Programming languages, Digital media, Digital music, info@..., software, Joe Hummel
- Discussion threads 2005-06-28
- Set up user accounts quickly and securely
- secure the .password fileIf you are going to use a plain-text file to store the user's password, please make sure no one else can read it*Before* creating the .password file, run this:touch ~joe/.passwordchown joe ~joe/.passwordchmod 600 ~joe/.passwordFor even more security, have the user securely delete the file once he has...
- Tags: rlaska@..., password
- Discussion threads 2007-08-07
- Magnetic Joe (exe)
- In Magnetic Joe, you control a little, magnetic sphere by making and stopping it being magnetic. When Joe is magnetic, he will be drawn by the various metal objects on the levels, thus you can help him evade the obstacles spikes and glide to the end stations. There are 50...
- Tags: Level, Internet, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2007-02-05
- Tech Tip: Manage user groups in Linux
- Learn about handling user groups in Linux, and find out how to determine which groups you belong to. On a Linux system, each user has one unique user id uid. This number uniquely identifies the user on the system. ...
- Tags: Guest Contributor, Linux Tips Newsletter, Group, File, User, Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software
- Technical articles 2004-09-07
- VMWare Details
- Can anybody give me a brief idea of what VMWare is? and how can I access VMWare GUI so that I can take a look at all ESXs and GOSs...Thanks
- Tags: prasad.pict@..., VMware Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-01
- Set up user accounts quickly and securely
- When you need to set up a user account to give a user shell access to the system, the only logical choice of login tool is OpenSSH. With SSH keys, all you need from the user is his SSH public key, and all he needs from you is the IP...
- Tags: Password, SSH, User, Vincent Danen
- Blog posts 2007-08-06
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