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- Set Up a Center of Excellence for SOA: Considerations and Analysis
- An SOA COE is an organization that assimilates and promotes best practices, knowledge, and pragmatic leading-edge solutions in the area of SOA. The COE introduces rigor and discipline across various SOA initiatives and provides benefits by building skills and competency to sustain successful execution of increasingly complex SOA initiatives. SOA...
- Tags: SOA, Analysis, SOA COE, COE, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-08-14
- Does Relevance Matter to Data Mining Research?
- Data Mining DM and knowledge discovery are intelligent tools that help to accumulate and process data and make use of it. This paper reviews several existing frameworks for DM research that originate from different paradigms. These DM frameworks mainly address various DM algorithms for the different steps of the DM...
- Tags: University Of Jyvaskyla, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing
- White papers 2005-10-20
- Application Architecture Essentials, Part 3: Getting Started With Application Development Methodologies
- In this installment in the series about the discipline of application architecture, one explores the skills, tools, techniques, and milestones related to application development methodology. A well-rounded application architect must be able to apply a number of methodologies to the development of an application. The choice of method may be...
- Tags: Application Development, Methodology, Software Development, Development Tools, Middleware, Productivity, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-04-03
- Making ITIL Actionable With Rational Method Composer
- ITIL stands for the Information Technology Infrastructure Library and is considered the global standard for IT Service Management ITSM best practices. While software development styles like RUP and XP are targeted to the software development subject area, ITIL is targeted towards the IT operations area. It was created in the...
- Tags: Information Technology, IBM Corp., ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Software Development, Quality, Business Operations, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2005-12-15
- Pitfalls of Spreadsheet-Based BPM Solutions: A Critical Look at the Dangers of Using Spreadsheet-Based BPM Solutions
- Performance management is a corporate-wide activity that involves business modeling, planning, forecasting, budgeting, reporting and analysis. While there are spreadsheet-based BPM Business Performance Management solutions, they lack the rigor and the necessary foundation to effectively facilitate a corporate-wide planning exercise. They are simply not meant to handle activities that span...
- Tags: BPM, Performance Management, Spreadsheet, Forecasting, Productivity, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Strategy, Enterprise Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Management, Software
- White papers 2005-06-01
- The IBM Data Governance Council Maturity Model: Building a Roadmap for Effective Data Governance
- Data governance is a quality control discipline for adding new rigor and discipline to the process of managing, using, improving and protecting organizational information. Effective data governance can enhance the quality, availability and integrity of a company's data by fostering cross-organizational collaboration and structured policy-making. Many companies are just learning...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Data Governance, IBM Data Governance Council Maturity Model, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2007-10-01
- Use these steps in qualitative analysis of project risks
- When you use qualitative risk analysis you should evaluate each risk and designate each risk as high, medium, or low, depending on two criteria--the severity of impact and the probability of the event occurring. Here's how to do it. The first part of the risk management process is to...
- Tags: Strategy, Tom Mochal, SECURITY, analysis, risk, negative impact, risk analysis, Project Management Newsletter, Technique, Impact, Medium, Management
- Technical articles 2007-03-06
- Use an initial Discovery Project to define very large projects
- Before a project actually starts, you must spend an appropriate amount of time defining the work and building a workplan schedule. For a small project, it may only take a few hours to complete this upfront work. A medium sized project might take 20 - 40 to define and plan....
- Tags: Discovery, Project, Project Definition, Tom Mochal
- Technical articles 2005-03-22
- Download this submission form to help you manage project issues
- Project issues have the potential to jeopardize a project's success. Get a handle on those issues by downloading this submission form, which project managers can use to capture, screen, prioritize, and evaluate issues.Part of your job as a project manager is to be on a constant lookout for possible project...
- Tags: Team management, Jennifer Recktenwald, project team, Tom Mochal
- Technical articles 2001-01-30
- Keep the software testing life cycle spinning
- Software testing doesn?t just determine whether an application runs--it also shows how well you?ve done your job. Developer Republic kicks off a new series on testing with a look at basic considerations for implementing an effective testing life cycle.When I was a full-time software developer, I liked nothing better than...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Development tools, Tom Mochal, software, software testing, business requirement
- Technical articles 2001-08-14
- Business Process Analysis Worksheets & Guidelines v1.0
- The primary goal of the ebXML effort is to facilitate the integration of e-businesses throughout the world with each other. Towards this end much of the work in ebXML has focused on the notion of a public process: the business processes by which external entities interact with an e-business. The...
- Tags: Business Process, Specification, Modeling, ebXML Community, ebXML, B2B, Operational Planning, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Business Operations
- White papers 2001-05-10
- Select and prioritize projects with a business case
- The managers in your company have a lot of work they would like to get done over the next year. This work is typically surfaced during the annual budgeting process. Usually, however, many more projects are proposed than your company has the ability to fund. Even if your company had...
- Tags: business case, Tom Mochal
- Technical articles 2003-12-15
- Evolution The Great Lie
- Evolutionsist proclaim their good idea is science but in reality severely lacks credible strength on numerous serious scientific failures of the theory. While the logic 'sounds' good and the science 'feels' good, the theory falls drastically short of credible acceptance. Originally, this good idea was formed over 140 years ago...
- Tags: WildThrill, theory, evolution, off-topic, AbuWho, Sven Solomnsky, Yoodler, biological life, randomness, Evolution Theory
- Discussion threads 2007-01-31
- Make an effective project management process a high priority for application development projects
- By Joe Feliu in conjunction with the Enterprise ComputingInstituteAlthough projects occur throughout all organizations in theIT group, the most urgent need is to have a documented project managementprocess that is followed for application development projects. Businessliterature is replete with case studies of projects gone wrong, and careerssidetracked. If your organization...
- Tags: application development, Project, Project Control, project management, Project Management Process
- Technical articles 2005-07-18
- Confessions of a Project Manager
- blog rootThese are the trials and tribulations of a baffled PM. If you can relate to this in any way, shape or form, please post. Recently, during my year end review, I sent out a survey to collect feedback regarding this year's performance. Among the somewhat stellar comments, was a...
- Tags: Babs_1957, artifact
- Discussion threads 2005-11-28
- Key elements within service level management
- When businesses depend on IT services for mission-critical applications, downtime is too expensive. As a result, effective service level management is becoming increasingly important. Learn to improve your overall approach to SLM.By Matt ArnoldBefore organizations can effectively implement service level management SLM, they must have a clear understanding of the...
- Tags: Service management, Guest Contributor, Service Level Management, IT Organizations, SLA, information technology
- Technical articles 2000-05-22
- The CIO's code of ethics for managing electronic data
- Teaching employees about the ethics of data management is part of the daily routine for Sandy Hofmann, CIO of an Atlanta IT firm. One day, Hofmann discovered that a marketing employee had just given a 700-name customer list to a vendor. Hofmann chased down the vendor to retrieve the list....
- Tags: code of ethics, CUSTOMER DATA, customer data, Hofmann, Mary O'Doherty, Worldspan
- Technical articles 2003-06-30
- Decision Support: Chargeback works in theory, but does it work in practice?
- To an IT manager, the notion of chargeback—charging user departments for IT costs they incur—can seem very attractive. After all, instead of IT having to decide the level of expenditure for new technology, and perhaps being looked at as a seemingly bottomless cost pit, each business unit can decide what...
- Tags: chargeback, Toni Bowers, decision support, information technology, Member Czahrobsky@nephdocs.com, theory
- Technical articles 2004-02-04
- Break small projects down so you don't neglect the details
- Consultants who are used to adhering to a project workplan with large activities may leave out necessary detail in smaller projects. Make sure your smaller project plans don't suffer from a lack of granularity.Each week, project management veteran Tom Mochal provides advice on planning and managing projects. He first describes...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Tom Mochal, workplan, Reyna, large activity, project management
- Technical articles 2002-07-15
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