Criterias for each tasks

[Beniyam Assefa]

Hi Everyone,

Hope this email will find you well. I've tried to write down some of the points that we should follow and hopefully you've done some research of your own. please add any valuable information here for the group to take a look.

Looking forward to hear everyone's comment
Cheers.

Task 1:

Criteria

 

Financial-profit,capital,Revenue

Operation-Production, drilling sites, R&D

Status- International/Local

 

Task 2:

Criteria

1. inside- Project managers, system Analysts, software Engineers, programmers

Outside -different stake holders

2. Banks, individuals, companies, users
3. Refer Task 1 question 2

4. Refer Task 1 question 4

Task 3:

Criteria

1. Please refer this site. http://projectmanagementcourse.com/project-challenges.html
2. Best software Microsoft visio 2007/10

Task 4:

Follow task 1 to 3 and develop a slide show and write your own reflection.

[hyacinthe benemariya]

Hi all,

 

Thank you Beniyam for giving us criteria.

I was trying to write what can be in each task, like guideline for research, but I've done task 2 only!!! For task 1, as everyone has a question to work on, I think it would be better if everyone can write down here the important lines in their research, then it can help us to visualize task 1 content as well as development of other tasks. 

 

TASK 2: PROJECT PLANNING

-why project planning is necessary in project management

·         To guide execution of project execution

-why team contract is necessary for the project

·         It helps promote teamwork and clarify team communications.

·         Project members from different areas/backgrounds give ideas of what should go into contract and work together to develop it.

Here, after Beniyam identified some of the stakeholders as Banks, individuals, companies, users, etc, I think each group of stakeholder should have one representative in the project, therefore they can develop team contract as mentioned above.

-issues related to team members:

·         Members are from different areas; therefore they may have different views as well as different personalities.

·         They may be lack of communication between members from inside and outside of the company though developed team contract with agreements.

-team contract should include following main topics (each one should be developed) which should solve the above issues:

·         Code of conduct

·         Participation

·         Communication

·         Problem solving

·         Meeting Guidelines

-why scope statement for the project

·         To clarify the scope of the project

-the scope statement should include:

·         Project title , date and the person preparing the scope statement

·         Project justification: how will this project of new data warehouse help the company to achieve its goals, how will companies benefit from it financially, budget estimation of the project.

·         Product characteristics and requirements (of data warehouse):

·         Summary of Project deliverables and product-related deliverables

·         Project success criteria

-why stakeholder analysis is needed in project management

·         Coz the goal of the project management is to meet stakeholders needs and expectations from a project

·         It will help project manager lead the execution of the project plan

-it should include:

·         Stakeholder’s names and organizations ( Banks, individuals, companies, users),

·         Their roles on the project

·         Unique facts about each stakeholder

·         Their level of interest in the project

·         Their influence on the project

·         Suggestion for managing relationships with each stakeholder

-project costs and benefits:

·         Life cycle costing can be used since it provides a big picture of the cost of a project throughout its life cycle. This helps to develop an accurate projection of project’s financial costs and benefits.

Reference: Information Technology Project Management, 5th ed, 2007, Kathy Schwalbe

 

Plz, any comment or other suggestion is welcomed.

Thx.

2013/5/13 Beniyam Assefa <epal...@gmail.com>

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[Vernon Kamanga]

IT Consultants hello,

Many thanks Ben and Hyacinth for your valuable contributions. Although the instructions are a bit vague (or may be it’s me who is behind), I was of the view that we needed to crack on with task 1 before maneuvering to the next one. The criteria Ben mentioned is not exhaustive. In other words, it only takes care of one (1) of the seven (7) prescribed requirements of the whole task. (Task 1)

I have attached a rough copy of my write up.I havent proof read it. Hopefully it is relevant

Task 1:

Criteria

 

1.      Financial-profit, capital, Revenue, market share

         Operation-Production, drilling sites, R&D

         Status- International/Local

2.       i.e. .......a mention of some drilling, manufacturing, and explorations systems a few company objectives and a mention how do these large companies use    information   systems to help them achieve corporate objectives?  

3.      Popular suppliers of software and their functions etc may ten of these and a mention of which companies            use them

         4.     Financial benefits of the project (which project no clue) to the business in question

       

5.   Identification of five opportunities and risk that would arise as a result of completing the project

[Evary Nana]

Hi friends this my own participe u can criticize on it.

Task 1

Question 2

 

List of the top 10 data warehousing services companies  that we can found in the word and how they provide Database Management Services, DBA Services, Business Intelligence Analytics & Data Warehousing Solutions:

Companies		What they do?		The links to get more information
RTTS		RTTS is the premier organization that specializes in providing software quality. QuerySurge is RTTS testing tool geared at automating the testing process of data warehouses		www.rtts.com
ACCENTURE		Accenture draws on its extensive data mining and architecture experience, leading assets and extensive resources to help clients build comprehensive data ...		www.accenture.com
ACHIEVO		Achievo helps companies implement effective data warehousing solutions that simplify management of massive amounts of data spread across legacy systems		www.achievo.com
AIVEA		Enterprise Content Management solutions with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 software. Portland based Aivea provides the full range of services ...		www.aivea.com
C3ITSOLUTION		C3ITs Data Warehouse consultants help architect a comprehensive and scalable data warehouse platform for data management and integration.		www.c3itsolutions.com
CPSTONEC		Welcome to the hub of Capstones Enterprise Data Warehousing services. Capstones BI and data architects are standing by to help you with one of the most ...		www.capstonec.com
COMCEPT-SOLUTION		A data warehouse is a set of processes and an architecture, which provides a client the facilities to extract, integrate, and maintain complex operational ...		www.concept-solutions.com
CONVANSYS		Covansys Corporation is a global consulting and technology services company specializing in industry-specific solutions, strategic outsourcing and ...		www.covansys.com
DATAMATICS		Datawarehousing solutions, Banks and Financial Instituitions, Data Storage, Data Acquisition, Accessing data.		www.datamatics.com
DATAUPIA		Dataupias data warehouse appliance helps a number of business applications, unlocking all of the data and enabling you to make better business decisions.		www.dataupia.com

 

 

Top five benefits of a data warehouse

According to The Data Warehouse Institute, a data warehouse is the foundation for a successful BI program. The concept of data warehousing is pretty easy to understand—to create a central location and permanent storage space for the various data sources needed to support a company’s analysis, reporting and other BI functions.

And it’s really important for your business.

But a data warehouse also costs money — big money. The problem is when big money is involved it’s tough to justify spending it on any project, especially when you can’t really quantify the benefits upfront. When it comes to a data warehouse, it’s not easy to know what the benefits are until it’s up and running. According to BI-Insider.com, here are the key benefits of a data warehouse once it’s launched.

A Data Warehouse Delivers Enhanced Business Intelligence

By providing data from various sources, managers and executives will no longer need to make business decisions based on limited data or their gut. In addition, “data warehouses and related BI can be applied directly to business processes including marketing segmentation, inventory management, financial management, and sales.”

A Data Warehouse Saves Time

Since business users can quickly access critical data from a number of sources—all in one place—they can rapidly make informed decisions on key initiatives. They won’t waste precious time retrieving data from multiple sources.

Not only that but the business execs can query the data themselves with little or no support from IT—saving more time and more money. That means the business users won’t have to wait until IT gets around to generating the reports, and those hardworking folks in IT can do what they do best—keep the business running.

A Data Warehouse Enhances Data Quality and Consistency

A data warehouse implementation includes the conversion of data from numerous source systems into a common format. Since each data from the various departments is standardized, each department will produce results that are in line with all the other departments. So you can have more confidence in the accuracy of your data. And accurate data is the basis for strong business decisions.

A Data Warehouse Provides Historical Intelligence

A data warehouse stores large amounts of historical data so you can analyze different time periods and trends in order to make future predictions. Such data typically cannot be stored in a transactional database or used to generate reports from a transactional system.

A Data Warehouse Generates a High ROI

Finally, the piece de resistance—return on investment. Companies that have implemented data warehouses and complementary BI systems have generated more revenue and saved more money than companies that haven’t invested in BI systems and data warehouses.

And that should be reason enough for senior management to jump on the data warehouse bandwagon.( Reference: Linda Rosencrance Spotfire Blogging Team, http://spotfire.tibco.com)