Recently I heard the frequently used phrase again: we have to provide “the right data to the right people at the right time”. The phrase is related to business intelligence and hints that we should provide business users with the right data at the right time to enable them to make business decisions. Have we ever…
Project managers often work in matrix organizations where they don’t have formal authority over their project team members. They have to discuss and negotiate their resources with the functional managers or other stakeholders who are involved with the project. In addition, project managers typically don’t authorize their own project budgets and other project constraints, their…
In today’s competitive environment businesses want to continue to be profitable. They want to hold on to their existing clients and acquire new ones and they want to do this with the least amount of cost. Predictive analytics can help to achieve all of the above. – Article published in MonitorPro magazine, fall 2010, p….
In 2009 Project Management Institute completed a broad research project that confirmed the value of project management when applied in companies worldwide. Although the results of the research were not a surprise to those of us who are involved with projects on a daily basis, we nevertheless often encounter companies in real life who do not…
Business intelligence solutions have matured to the level where we don’t have to ask anymore whether they are useful or relevant. It is a given that they supplement other business solutions. Due to increased competition, there is more need than ever to extract even more business value from business intelligence solutions. – Article published in Sistem,…
In traditional project management we should know the scope, cost and schedule of our projects. But in reality we often don’t know all the details about scope, therefore we can’t estimate the project cost in schedule. Agile methodologies have been introduced to deliver quick results and allow the project to address the real needs of…
Managing projects made up of international teams presents unique challenges in terms of communication, collaboration and managing stakeholder expectations. Being able to adapt to local custom is key in reaching successful outcomes, however, when a project team is made up of individuals from different parts of the world it is unclear which local custom to…
IT developers are often overworked, tired, stressed and required to work long hours. There are always new requirements to be implemented, bugs to be fixed and too many urgent tasks to be completed at the same time. Considering that developers must also take care of their professional development in order to keep up with…
Lessons learned from conversion to Euro projects show that they were all successful, were completed on time and they achieved expected results without any major issues. Comparing this to the general perception that IT projects are always late, exceed budgets or run into trouble we have to wonder what was different in conversion to Euro…
As service oriented architectures are becoming mainstream we should consider how this affects data warehousing. We can expect impacts of service oriented architectures on both ends of data warehousing implementations: in the way we load data as well as in the way we consume it. — Article published in Sistem November 2006, p. 6-7.