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Change Management (CM) and Release Management (RM) are different but tightly related topics. Its easy to get these topics confused as they work with each other. Change Management(CM) – Focus on the changes required to provide the business product change required. Such as a Price Change or a new product. Release Management (RM) – Focus . . . → Read More: Change Management vs Release Management When a company decides they need to reduce contractors, certain factors must be considered, especially when the prime concern is knowledge retention. It is important to take into consideration how long the FTE’s are being retained, if you find that most of the FTE’s tenure in the company is less then the contractors based on . . . → Read More: When knowledge retention is the reason to eliminate contractors When delving into a business to help build or support new products, one of the first things that its important to do is have a common domain language. What is a common domain language? Well its a set of terms, expressions, and supporting documentation that allows all involved parties to speak and understand what message . . . → Read More: Support Domain Definitions (Errors and Jeopardy Management) This past summer I learned about the TM Forum which in my perspective is an organization that provides communications companies a set of standards and guidelines to help enable companies to create consistent solutions through different frameworks / guidelines that work together. FrameWorx Information Framework (SID - provides a common & flexible design of all the information . . . → Read More: TM Forum – Introduction Severity vs. Priority Defined From my readings, severity is business centric and priority is development centric. QA / Business Users – assign severity as the problem is found, Developers – assign the priority. Severity – is the effect on the software user. It’s important to note that the values for this field don’t have to . . . → Read More: Defects – Severity and Priority Program Management The process of managing several related projects, often with the intention of improving an organization’s performance. The goals of programs management are: To create outcomes using projects to deliver outputs, discrete parcels or “chunks” of change. May be a large project or a set (or portfolio) of projects. With the intention of to . . . → Read More: Business Analysis Terms – 3  Leave a comment  Business Analysis, Project Management  business anylysis, program management, project communication management, project cost management, project human resources management, project initiation, project integration management, project management, project management office, project office, project procuement management, project quality management, project review, project rick management, project scope management, project time management, proof of concept, prototype, quality assurance, quality control, radical process improvement, requirements analysis, requirements definition, standards development, strategic planning, systems design, systems testing, tactical planning, team leadership technical writing, uat, user acceptance testing, user training, vendor management Database Management Database management encompasses the activities related to: performance tuning, physical data layout backups, triggers, and stored procedures support, development and maintenance. Executive Stakeholder Management Manage upwards and outwards executives / sponsors The executive stakeholders have a significant influence and are important to project success. Need to ensure they are engaged and commitment (revising . . . → Read More: Business Analysis Terms – 2 Leave a comment Business Analysis, Project Management business analysis, database management, executive stakeholder management, facilitation, feasibility study, interfaces, intgration, it strategy development, line management, management advisory services, organiational design, organization implemention, organization readiness assessment, package evaluation package selection, package implementation, performance management, policy development, portfolio management, process analysis, process audit, process design, process implementation process measurement, process modeling, process review, project management Application Architecture Application architecture is the process of defining all of the components within the application and describing how they will communicate via interfaces with external systems. This includes all layers of an application: the presentation layer, the business layer, data access layer, and the application server architecture The goal is to ensure that the . . . → Read More: Business Analysis Terms – 1 Summary This is a small article on assumptions where I discuss what an assumption is and how they relate to requirements. It’s important to spent the time evaluating your assumptions, and describing what an assumption is and how to make quality assumptions. Once you have a collection of assumptions it’s important to rate them for importance, and . . . → Read More: Assumption (Not Requirement) Management Yes I did say shitless and I mean it. Microsoft has released a new ad directly attacking OpenOffice which is a tactic that Microsoft has not used before. Microsoft’s usual M.O. is to ignore the competition and pretend it doesn’t exist, but the softies must be scared at the market share that OpenOffice has been . . . → Read More: OpenOffice Scares Microsoft Sh*tless |
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