A surprising revelation related to data warehousing was that Facebook uses a traditional data warehouse based on relational technology. The news is interesting because Facebook is one of the representatives of the new generation of companies who deal with very large amounts of data and therefore don’t want relational technology because it is too cumbersome…
Companies must have good quality up-to-date data about their customers, suppliers, products and services to be able to efficiently run marketing campaigns and communicate with business process stakeholders. Data quality is very important for efficient analytics and business intelligence. — MonitorPro spring 2013, p. 26-29
PMI published the newest, fifth edition of the Project Mangement Body of Knowledge or PMBOK, the worldwide recognized project management manual. As with each new edition of the PMBOK there are numerous minor updates. This time, however, there is a major update and that is the addition of a completely new chapter. It deals with…
After more than 20 years in corporate IT consulting environments, I volunteered my project management services to a non-governmental organization (NGO) in Cambodia. Here are some of my experiences of the challenges facing project managers in NGOs and in developing countries in general. NGOs are non-profit organizations that typically function in the areas of social…
Managers often discover that they have tons of business reports but no real data for decision support. Business intelligence is not always enough, therefore it is supplemented by analytics and data mining which enables users to discover hidden patterns in data and predicting probabilities of events in the future. — MonitorPro winter 2012, p. 30-31
In their book Green Project Management authors Richard Maltzman and David Shirley tell us that project managers are inherently green because they constantly strive to decrease costs, increase business value and protect scarce resources. This all contributes to being green. Companies are increasingly more aware of the need to become green and therefore it makes…
Everything is agile nowadays. Businesses run faster and there is very little time between a business event and the need to respond. To enable business processes to be quick and agile we need efficient access to data that enables us to make decisions. — MonitorPro autumn 2012, p. 30-32
When we talk about agile projects and the most popular agile approaches such as Scrum, XP, Lean or Kanban, there is never any mention of specific team member roles that correspond to waterfall projects. For example, where are the specialists, such as system architects, database designers, or business analysts? Are they no longer relevant in…
Project Management Institute (PMI) published the results of a major research in 2009 which confirmed that project management adds value. The result was expected because all of us who are professional project managers believe in its merits. This research was the first of its kind to scientifically prove our beliefs. — GEA Forum Issue 13, september…
Agile is popular and the web is brimming with information about it. Due to so much information it is not easy for a newbie who wants to get involved with agile development to decide how to begin or to distinguish between truth and myth. To make it even more confusing there are conflicting facts –…