The document provides information about a workshop on service identification techniques held by Ordina. The workshop organizers are introduced and the goal of gaining practical experience with service identification methods is described. The agenda includes an introduction, a case study exercise, feedback, and an award announcement. Several service identification methods are explained, including starting from current systems and process decomposition. Participants are then instructed to read a case study assignment within 2 minutes and identify services from existing systems within the next 8 minutes.
Introduction to Automated Electrical TestingJeremy Ames
VMC provides automated electrical testing solutions for vehicles and components. Their systems can test continuity, voltage, current, and communication protocols. Tests are completed much faster by their automated systems compared to manual methods. The automated tests also provide detailed digital records and test statistics for quality control. VMC's hardware and software are customizable to perform specific required tests through flexible relay matrices and programmable test sequencing.
Journey to Excellence: An Inside Look at the Baldrige National Quality Award ...Zach Evans
The document provides an overview of the Baldrige National Quality Award program and the benefits it provides to organizations. It discusses how the Chugach School District in Alaska used the Baldrige criteria to improve student achievement and organizational performance, becoming the first education organization and smallest organization to win the award. It also profiles the Tennessee Center for Performance Excellence, a state award program modeled after Baldrige, and its benefits for member organizations.
Email marketing continues to be rated the most effective digital marketing tactic because of its high ROI and ease of execution. According to Salesforce’s 2015 State of Marketing survey, 73% of businesses rank email as the core of their business.
Email is important to your bottom line, but do you know how to measure its effectiveness? Moreover, do you know what it takes to generate stronger ROI from this key marketing channel?
Learn exactly how to measure program effectiveness, calculate your email ROI, and then identify actionable takeaways on how to generate more revenue from your email program.
alfabet: A Navigation System for Innovative Transformation ProjectsSoftware AG
Innovation World 2013 presentation.
In the digital age, organizations are undergoing massive transformations that require a growing effectiveness of their IT investments. An integrated IT portfolio allows decision-makers to plan and steer transformation projects successfully in the context of their business strategy. Alfabet is a leader in integrated IT portfolio management and has shaped the market for more than 15 years. This presentation demonstrates how to turn the road to the Digital Enterprise into a highway. See how to free up budget for innovation, prioritize and plan transformation and how to stay on course even if the route changes.
Speaker:
Erik Masing
CEO, alfabet
Mc ginley oracle scorecard & strategy managementmalliyadava
The document discusses Oracle Scorecard & Strategy Management (OSSM) and how it can be used beyond just building scorecards. It provides examples of how OSSM features like KPI objects, views like strategy maps and cause/effect maps, could be useful for regular business intelligence (BI) use cases. While OSSM has advantages over traditional BI tools, the document notes there is still room for maturity and some limitations with complex requirements.
This document discusses the business and organizational implications of multi-speed IT. It begins by setting the stage on how information growth, disruptive innovations, and market speed are accelerating exponentially. It then discusses the concepts of multi-speed IT and how systems of innovation can operate differently than traditional systems of record. The document outlines some technical, business, and organizational challenges that multi-speed IT presents. It concludes that while multi-speed IT adds complexity, it allows organizations to embrace change while maintaining existing systems.
This document summarizes the key findings of PwC's 4th Global PPM Survey. The survey found that familiar issues with program/project delivery are still not being addressed. It identifies 5 themes for organizations to focus on: 1) optimize their portfolio to maximize returns, 2) be flexible and change faster, 3) enable people to deliver success, 4) connect executive teams to delivery teams, and 5) measure and address facts to maintain direction. While benefits are often set, they are not always realized. The survey illustrates there is often a disconnect between executive teams and program managers. To be successful, organizations need to understand strategy and adapt delivery to meet changing needs.
The document outlines the procedure for integrating ARIS and SAP Solution Manager (SolMan) to model business processes, including mapping customer processes in ARIS to SAP and synchronizing the models between the two systems to support implementation projects. It provides conventions for structuring models in multiple levels and attributes for classifying process steps and ensuring consistency across the modeling.
Introduction to Automated Electrical TestingJeremy Ames
VMC provides automated electrical testing solutions for vehicles and components. Their systems can test continuity, voltage, current, and communication protocols. Tests are completed much faster by their automated systems compared to manual methods. The automated tests also provide detailed digital records and test statistics for quality control. VMC's hardware and software are customizable to perform specific required tests through flexible relay matrices and programmable test sequencing.
Journey to Excellence: An Inside Look at the Baldrige National Quality Award ...Zach Evans
The document provides an overview of the Baldrige National Quality Award program and the benefits it provides to organizations. It discusses how the Chugach School District in Alaska used the Baldrige criteria to improve student achievement and organizational performance, becoming the first education organization and smallest organization to win the award. It also profiles the Tennessee Center for Performance Excellence, a state award program modeled after Baldrige, and its benefits for member organizations.
Email marketing continues to be rated the most effective digital marketing tactic because of its high ROI and ease of execution. According to Salesforce’s 2015 State of Marketing survey, 73% of businesses rank email as the core of their business.
Email is important to your bottom line, but do you know how to measure its effectiveness? Moreover, do you know what it takes to generate stronger ROI from this key marketing channel?
Learn exactly how to measure program effectiveness, calculate your email ROI, and then identify actionable takeaways on how to generate more revenue from your email program.
alfabet: A Navigation System for Innovative Transformation ProjectsSoftware AG
Innovation World 2013 presentation.
In the digital age, organizations are undergoing massive transformations that require a growing effectiveness of their IT investments. An integrated IT portfolio allows decision-makers to plan and steer transformation projects successfully in the context of their business strategy. Alfabet is a leader in integrated IT portfolio management and has shaped the market for more than 15 years. This presentation demonstrates how to turn the road to the Digital Enterprise into a highway. See how to free up budget for innovation, prioritize and plan transformation and how to stay on course even if the route changes.
Speaker:
Erik Masing
CEO, alfabet
Mc ginley oracle scorecard & strategy managementmalliyadava
The document discusses Oracle Scorecard & Strategy Management (OSSM) and how it can be used beyond just building scorecards. It provides examples of how OSSM features like KPI objects, views like strategy maps and cause/effect maps, could be useful for regular business intelligence (BI) use cases. While OSSM has advantages over traditional BI tools, the document notes there is still room for maturity and some limitations with complex requirements.
This document discusses the business and organizational implications of multi-speed IT. It begins by setting the stage on how information growth, disruptive innovations, and market speed are accelerating exponentially. It then discusses the concepts of multi-speed IT and how systems of innovation can operate differently than traditional systems of record. The document outlines some technical, business, and organizational challenges that multi-speed IT presents. It concludes that while multi-speed IT adds complexity, it allows organizations to embrace change while maintaining existing systems.
This document summarizes the key findings of PwC's 4th Global PPM Survey. The survey found that familiar issues with program/project delivery are still not being addressed. It identifies 5 themes for organizations to focus on: 1) optimize their portfolio to maximize returns, 2) be flexible and change faster, 3) enable people to deliver success, 4) connect executive teams to delivery teams, and 5) measure and address facts to maintain direction. While benefits are often set, they are not always realized. The survey illustrates there is often a disconnect between executive teams and program managers. To be successful, organizations need to understand strategy and adapt delivery to meet changing needs.
The document outlines the procedure for integrating ARIS and SAP Solution Manager (SolMan) to model business processes, including mapping customer processes in ARIS to SAP and synchronizing the models between the two systems to support implementation projects. It provides conventions for structuring models in multiple levels and attributes for classifying process steps and ensuring consistency across the modeling.
Lean Scaling – From Lean Startup to Lean Enterprise - Itamar GoldminzAtlassian
Congratulations! You've found the right product-market fit, and it's now time to scale your business. But growing your organization often means slower decision making, increased complexity, and higher chance for misalignments. How can you grow your business while staying lean? Learn five key lessons on how to use smart integration and process to grow with your Atlassian tools.
The document describes an advanced product portfolio management capability called Genesis. Genesis uses consumer research, market data, and financial modeling to simulate the market and financial impact of changes to a company's product portfolio. It helps companies address challenges like changing consumer preferences and intense competition. The document provides examples of how Genesis has helped clients in industries like food manufacturing and healthcare by evaluating pricing strategies, new product opportunities, and portfolio optimization.
How NBCUniversal is embracing DevOps to improve application delivery. Hear how they are using automation tools, like IBM UrbanCode to help standardize culture, speed time to market, integrate with existing tools, and deliver releases effectively. Learn more about UrbanCode here: http://ibm.biz/learnurbancode
The document discusses the differences between creativity and innovation, as well as project and portfolio management. It outlines nine basic steps for innovation, from problem identification to implementation. It then presents the innovation project portfolio concept, which involves defining a portfolio, developing a strategy, ensuring the right blend and balance of projects, and engaging leadership. The key points are that innovation requires managing tasks and resources like projects, and that combining project management skills with idea generation can increase innovative success.
Your Challenge:
As Portfolio Manager, you’re responsible for communicating portfolio results and future capacity to your steering committee.
Business and IT leaders need more accurate information on project status and resource availability to decide when to start and stop projects.
You need to better understand the needs of the PMO and assess the costs and benefits associated with different tools and approaches to PPM.
Our Advice - Critical Insight:
PPM is a practice, not a tool. Before succeeding with a commercial tool, you need to establish discipline and trust around reporting processes, which can be done using spreadsheets and other simple tools.
Portfolio management is separate from project management. Think of it as the accounting department for time. Project managers report into the portfolio and are held accountable to it, but it isn’t simply an extension of project management.
Our Advice - Impact and Result:
Decrease the wasted portfolio budget by reducing the number of cancelled projects and other sources of efficiency.
Establish the portfolio as the “one source of truth” for project reporting by increasing rigor around project status updating and reporting.
Align project intake with resource capacity to improve throughput, quality of estimates, and stakeholder satisfaction.
IBM’s Steve Barbieri and Chad Holliday show how enterprise customers are using blueprints to develop their infrastructure and application layers across different cloud environments - helping them "make the move to cloud" in 2017.
The document discusses ARIS, a software product for business process management and customer experience management. It provides information on the ARIS 2015 update and 2016 roadmap, including growth and successes in 2015, new features in the 9.8.2 release, and the vision and strategy going forward. Key areas of focus include improved usability, performance, and scalability; enhanced customer experience management capabilities; expanded mobile and API functionality; and tighter integration with other products like SAP and Alfabet.
PwC: New IT Platform From Strategy Through ExecutionCA Technologies
Glenn Hobbs, PwC’s technology consulting director, shares how PwC’s new IT Platform can provide the framework to transform IT organizations so they can quickly incorporate the right technology and focus on collaboration and innovation to help solve the most-critical business problems.
For more information on DevOps solutions from CA Technologies, please visit: http://bit.ly/1wbjjqX
This document discusses scaling lean principles within organizations. It begins by outlining challenges with scaling lean at the project, program, and portfolio levels, such as optimizing velocity, cross-team coordination, and managing business units. It then presents several principles for scaling lean successfully, including focusing on customer value, valuing learning over delivery, radical transparency, and humility. Tactics for implementing these principles include managing by objectives and key results, evidence-based planning, experimentation, transparency rituals, and modernizing technology stacks. The document emphasizes that scaling lean is as much a cultural and leadership effort as a process effort, requiring a focus on continuous learning and admitting what is not known.
Increasing agility to fuel growth and competitiveness - AccentureAccenture ASEAN
Profitable growth is a strategic priority for most companies. Yet, it is elusive.
Accenture's research examined key challenges to profitable growth. They include:
1) difficulty executing
2) lack of alignment at the executive level
3) operating models don’t flex for growth
4) executives struggle to prioritize growth investments
There are three actions to fuel profitable growth.
This document provides an overview and agenda for a presentation on microservice architecture. It begins with defining microservices as small, independent applications that communicate via APIs. It then gives an example of how the Dropwizard framework can be used to build production-ready microservices. The remainder of the document outlines five requirements for an internal loan underwriting system and how each could be implemented as an independent microservice. It discusses tooling, deployment strategies, testing approaches, and concludes with a discussion of the Unix philosophy and how it relates to microservices.
Accenture organisational design and structure of formalisationVikalp Mehta
This document provides information about Accenture, a multinational professional services company. It discusses that Accenture started as Anderson Consulting and is now the world's largest consulting firm, headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. The document also describes Accenture's mechanistic structure, technology typologies, business strategies, and organizational environment.
Driving Business Innovation through Technology Innovationaccenture
Speed matters in a digital economy. Customers expect products and services to be instantly available through whatever channel they choose. New competitors are springing up with a different mind-set and path to seize market share and turn the value chain of an established company, or industry, on its head.
If agility accelerates growth, innovation is the driving force to achieve it. Business innovation is digital innovation driven by new ideas and advances in technology. As technology leaders, CIOs have a tremendous opportunity to be relentlessly proactive in identifying how technology can create new value for the business.
Accenture DevOps: Delivering applications at the pace of businessAccenture Technology
Are you ready to shift to continuous delivery? DevOps, a leading software engineering innovation, makes this shift possible by bringing business, development and operation teams together to streamline IT and applying more automated processes.
The document discusses the need to change performance management practices to better support the changing workforce. It identifies 10 focus areas for driving better business performance through performance management, including shifting from annual reviews to ongoing coaching, reducing administrative tasks to allow more time for coaching, moving from past-focused assessments to future development, and including collaborative performance in assessments. The document is based on a survey that found most leaders and employees believe current performance management practices are not effective and need further changes to improve performance and support the future workforce.
Debunking the myths of organizational change managementaccenture
The document debunks common myths about organizational change by summarizing research from Accenture's database of over 850,000 employees across 250 change initiatives. The research found that: (1) change is non-linear and complex rather than a straightforward linear process; (2) high-performing groups experience more frequent and faster-paced change; and (3) change exposes pre-existing organizational dysfunction rather than causing it.
This document discusses key performance indicators (KPIs) for measuring agile projects. It begins by defining metrics and KPIs, noting that KPIs should be tied to strategic objectives and have defined targets. It then discusses characteristics of good KPIs and provides examples of both traditional and agile KPIs related to time, effort, scope, and quality. The document cautions that too many KPIs can be useless and advocates keeping metrics simple. It also discusses challenges like cheating on metrics and provides tips for using tools and dashboards to effectively measure agile performance.
This document provides an overview of key concepts for a hospitality industry course. It discusses defining hospitality, the characteristics of the industry including 24/7 operations and perishable products. Corporate philosophy focuses on employee empowerment, guest and employee satisfaction, and service as a way of life. Good customer service is emphasized as critical for success. Methods to improve service include focusing on the guest, understanding customer interactions, and training to create a service culture.
Value Stream Mapping is an essential tool to help understand the current state and design the future state of a process. Learn more about why this kind of mapping is fundamental for a big picture view of an entire Value Stream and for improving transactional and manufacturing processes.
This document summarizes lessons learned from three cases using event-driven architectures. In the first case, research found that an EDA improved maintainability by reducing changes needed and easing addition of new components. The second case was a research project that highlighted challenges like timing problems and difficult debugging, but also found adding new functionality was easy. The third case was a client project where experiences showed the event bus can be simple and components can be easily stubbed for testing, but configuring is more complex than just measuring events. Overall conclusions are that an EDA lessens interdependence and improves extensibility.
Laserfiche - User Presentation- Texas Higher Education Co-ordinatingLaserfiche
Debbie Whitis, Manager of Continuous Improvement for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, as she discusses how to translate complex projects involving many individuals, departments and decisions into one cohesive process in Laserfiche Workflow.
Whitis will demonstrate how to use advanced features of Workflow to automate a multi-step project from start to finish, from basic indexing of faxes to multi-department document review.
You'll learn how to create a process that reduces document processing time from days to seconds and generates detailed reporting on staff performance.
Lean Scaling – From Lean Startup to Lean Enterprise - Itamar GoldminzAtlassian
Congratulations! You've found the right product-market fit, and it's now time to scale your business. But growing your organization often means slower decision making, increased complexity, and higher chance for misalignments. How can you grow your business while staying lean? Learn five key lessons on how to use smart integration and process to grow with your Atlassian tools.
The document describes an advanced product portfolio management capability called Genesis. Genesis uses consumer research, market data, and financial modeling to simulate the market and financial impact of changes to a company's product portfolio. It helps companies address challenges like changing consumer preferences and intense competition. The document provides examples of how Genesis has helped clients in industries like food manufacturing and healthcare by evaluating pricing strategies, new product opportunities, and portfolio optimization.
How NBCUniversal is embracing DevOps to improve application delivery. Hear how they are using automation tools, like IBM UrbanCode to help standardize culture, speed time to market, integrate with existing tools, and deliver releases effectively. Learn more about UrbanCode here: http://ibm.biz/learnurbancode
The document discusses the differences between creativity and innovation, as well as project and portfolio management. It outlines nine basic steps for innovation, from problem identification to implementation. It then presents the innovation project portfolio concept, which involves defining a portfolio, developing a strategy, ensuring the right blend and balance of projects, and engaging leadership. The key points are that innovation requires managing tasks and resources like projects, and that combining project management skills with idea generation can increase innovative success.
Your Challenge:
As Portfolio Manager, you’re responsible for communicating portfolio results and future capacity to your steering committee.
Business and IT leaders need more accurate information on project status and resource availability to decide when to start and stop projects.
You need to better understand the needs of the PMO and assess the costs and benefits associated with different tools and approaches to PPM.
Our Advice - Critical Insight:
PPM is a practice, not a tool. Before succeeding with a commercial tool, you need to establish discipline and trust around reporting processes, which can be done using spreadsheets and other simple tools.
Portfolio management is separate from project management. Think of it as the accounting department for time. Project managers report into the portfolio and are held accountable to it, but it isn’t simply an extension of project management.
Our Advice - Impact and Result:
Decrease the wasted portfolio budget by reducing the number of cancelled projects and other sources of efficiency.
Establish the portfolio as the “one source of truth” for project reporting by increasing rigor around project status updating and reporting.
Align project intake with resource capacity to improve throughput, quality of estimates, and stakeholder satisfaction.
IBM’s Steve Barbieri and Chad Holliday show how enterprise customers are using blueprints to develop their infrastructure and application layers across different cloud environments - helping them "make the move to cloud" in 2017.
The document discusses ARIS, a software product for business process management and customer experience management. It provides information on the ARIS 2015 update and 2016 roadmap, including growth and successes in 2015, new features in the 9.8.2 release, and the vision and strategy going forward. Key areas of focus include improved usability, performance, and scalability; enhanced customer experience management capabilities; expanded mobile and API functionality; and tighter integration with other products like SAP and Alfabet.
PwC: New IT Platform From Strategy Through ExecutionCA Technologies
Glenn Hobbs, PwC’s technology consulting director, shares how PwC’s new IT Platform can provide the framework to transform IT organizations so they can quickly incorporate the right technology and focus on collaboration and innovation to help solve the most-critical business problems.
For more information on DevOps solutions from CA Technologies, please visit: http://bit.ly/1wbjjqX
This document discusses scaling lean principles within organizations. It begins by outlining challenges with scaling lean at the project, program, and portfolio levels, such as optimizing velocity, cross-team coordination, and managing business units. It then presents several principles for scaling lean successfully, including focusing on customer value, valuing learning over delivery, radical transparency, and humility. Tactics for implementing these principles include managing by objectives and key results, evidence-based planning, experimentation, transparency rituals, and modernizing technology stacks. The document emphasizes that scaling lean is as much a cultural and leadership effort as a process effort, requiring a focus on continuous learning and admitting what is not known.
Increasing agility to fuel growth and competitiveness - AccentureAccenture ASEAN
Profitable growth is a strategic priority for most companies. Yet, it is elusive.
Accenture's research examined key challenges to profitable growth. They include:
1) difficulty executing
2) lack of alignment at the executive level
3) operating models don’t flex for growth
4) executives struggle to prioritize growth investments
There are three actions to fuel profitable growth.
This document provides an overview and agenda for a presentation on microservice architecture. It begins with defining microservices as small, independent applications that communicate via APIs. It then gives an example of how the Dropwizard framework can be used to build production-ready microservices. The remainder of the document outlines five requirements for an internal loan underwriting system and how each could be implemented as an independent microservice. It discusses tooling, deployment strategies, testing approaches, and concludes with a discussion of the Unix philosophy and how it relates to microservices.
Accenture organisational design and structure of formalisationVikalp Mehta
This document provides information about Accenture, a multinational professional services company. It discusses that Accenture started as Anderson Consulting and is now the world's largest consulting firm, headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. The document also describes Accenture's mechanistic structure, technology typologies, business strategies, and organizational environment.
Driving Business Innovation through Technology Innovationaccenture
Speed matters in a digital economy. Customers expect products and services to be instantly available through whatever channel they choose. New competitors are springing up with a different mind-set and path to seize market share and turn the value chain of an established company, or industry, on its head.
If agility accelerates growth, innovation is the driving force to achieve it. Business innovation is digital innovation driven by new ideas and advances in technology. As technology leaders, CIOs have a tremendous opportunity to be relentlessly proactive in identifying how technology can create new value for the business.
Accenture DevOps: Delivering applications at the pace of businessAccenture Technology
Are you ready to shift to continuous delivery? DevOps, a leading software engineering innovation, makes this shift possible by bringing business, development and operation teams together to streamline IT and applying more automated processes.
The document discusses the need to change performance management practices to better support the changing workforce. It identifies 10 focus areas for driving better business performance through performance management, including shifting from annual reviews to ongoing coaching, reducing administrative tasks to allow more time for coaching, moving from past-focused assessments to future development, and including collaborative performance in assessments. The document is based on a survey that found most leaders and employees believe current performance management practices are not effective and need further changes to improve performance and support the future workforce.
Debunking the myths of organizational change managementaccenture
The document debunks common myths about organizational change by summarizing research from Accenture's database of over 850,000 employees across 250 change initiatives. The research found that: (1) change is non-linear and complex rather than a straightforward linear process; (2) high-performing groups experience more frequent and faster-paced change; and (3) change exposes pre-existing organizational dysfunction rather than causing it.
This document discusses key performance indicators (KPIs) for measuring agile projects. It begins by defining metrics and KPIs, noting that KPIs should be tied to strategic objectives and have defined targets. It then discusses characteristics of good KPIs and provides examples of both traditional and agile KPIs related to time, effort, scope, and quality. The document cautions that too many KPIs can be useless and advocates keeping metrics simple. It also discusses challenges like cheating on metrics and provides tips for using tools and dashboards to effectively measure agile performance.
This document provides an overview of key concepts for a hospitality industry course. It discusses defining hospitality, the characteristics of the industry including 24/7 operations and perishable products. Corporate philosophy focuses on employee empowerment, guest and employee satisfaction, and service as a way of life. Good customer service is emphasized as critical for success. Methods to improve service include focusing on the guest, understanding customer interactions, and training to create a service culture.
Value Stream Mapping is an essential tool to help understand the current state and design the future state of a process. Learn more about why this kind of mapping is fundamental for a big picture view of an entire Value Stream and for improving transactional and manufacturing processes.
This document summarizes lessons learned from three cases using event-driven architectures. In the first case, research found that an EDA improved maintainability by reducing changes needed and easing addition of new components. The second case was a research project that highlighted challenges like timing problems and difficult debugging, but also found adding new functionality was easy. The third case was a client project where experiences showed the event bus can be simple and components can be easily stubbed for testing, but configuring is more complex than just measuring events. Overall conclusions are that an EDA lessens interdependence and improves extensibility.
Laserfiche - User Presentation- Texas Higher Education Co-ordinatingLaserfiche
Debbie Whitis, Manager of Continuous Improvement for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, as she discusses how to translate complex projects involving many individuals, departments and decisions into one cohesive process in Laserfiche Workflow.
Whitis will demonstrate how to use advanced features of Workflow to automate a multi-step project from start to finish, from basic indexing of faxes to multi-department document review.
You'll learn how to create a process that reduces document processing time from days to seconds and generates detailed reporting on staff performance.
On December 14, 2009, the Alliance to Save Energy and the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) held a side event at the COP15 climate conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, entitled, "Paradox to Paradigm: The Role of Energy Efficiency in Creating Low Carbon Economies."
This document discusses various techniques for project estimation. It begins by outlining the goals of estimation and what is needed to perform estimations. It then discusses expected results and provides examples of three point estimation and the Delphi method. A variety of techniques are covered such as planning poker, proxy-based estimation, and functional point analysis. Common mistakes are reviewed and cognitive biases that can impact estimations. The document provides a helpful overview of project estimation approaches.
The document summarizes a presentation by Image Reading Center, Inc. to NYCEDC. It introduces the company founders and staff, who have academic research experience. The company aims to provide a virtual imaging lab and cloud-based image transfer platform to improve quality control of clinical trial imaging data. Currently, 10-50% of imaging data may be rejected due to a lack of technical oversight. The company sees opportunities in both collaborating with academic researchers on proposals and grants, and providing vendor services to biotech, device, and pharmaceutical industry sponsors for technology implementation in clinical trials.
The document discusses Kanban and lean principles being applied at Maersk Line to improve processes. It describes visualizing workflows, limiting work in progress, making policies explicit, measuring flow, and continuously improving. The goal of the X-Leap program is to make booking a container as easy as ordering a book on Amazon. Kanban concepts like limiting work in progress, pull systems, and measuring flow are being used to enhance predictability, deliver more value per release, and better utilize team capacity.
The document discusses Kanban and lean principles being applied at Maersk Line to improve processes. It describes visualizing workflows, limiting work in progress, making policies explicit, measuring flow, and continuously improving. The goal of the X-Leap program is to make booking a container as easy as ordering a book on Amazon. Kanban concepts like limiting work in progress, pull systems, and measuring flow are being used to enhance predictability, deliver more value per release, and better utilize team capacity.
Webinar: How to Manage Your Project to Completion Using the Project BuilderGoLeanSixSigma.com
Improving a process takes time and organization, but what if your project path was laid out for you? What if all the templates and examples were at your fingertips so you could focus your efforts on collecting data and digging to root cause?
That's the secret of the Project Builder. All the key tools and templates combined into one along with a progress tracker. It's a great guide and good way to share your hard work with colleagues and leadership. It's the ultimate all-in-one answer to Continuous Improvement!
https://goleansixsigma.com/webinar-how-to-manage-your-project-to-completion-using-the-project-builder/
Transitioning to Kanban: From Theory to PracticeTechWell
You're familiar with agile and, perhaps, practicing Scrum. Now you're curious about Kanban. Is it right for your project? How does Kanban differ from Scrum and other agile methodologies? From theory to practice, Gil Irizarry introduces Kanban principles and explains how Kanban's emphasis on modifying existing processes rather than upending them results in a smooth adoption. Instead of using time-boxed units of work, Kanban focuses on continuous workflow, allowing teams to incrementally improve and streamline product delivery. Explore how to move from Scrum to Kanban with new, practical techniques that can help your team quickly get better. Discover the use of cumulative flow diagrams, WIP (work-in-progress) limits, and classes of services. In a hands-on classroom exercise, you'll help create a value stream map, determine process efficiency, and experience techniques from the Kanban toolset. Come and grow your agile repertoire in the Kanban way.
Laserfiche - User Presentation- Texas Higher Education Co-ordinating Laserfiche
The document discusses how the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Loan Program Operations division began automating their complex loan processing projects using Laserfiche Workflow. They started by setting goals to streamline processes, improve times, and track steps. They identified areas for Workflow like payment processing. They created process maps and tested Workflows without being afraid. Workflows reduced staff needs by 17%, temp services by 75%, and downtimes by 98%, while also reducing backlogs, processing times, and daily import times. Future projects include automating litigation documents and loan applications using Quick Fields and Workflow.
Material & Information Flow Mapping
Free Webinar
June 22, 2009
In this webinar we taught about material and information flow mapping as it was taught to Michael E. Parker while working with lean experts in Japan, using the original lean technique! Learn how to grasp the current condition of your workplace and how to incorporate lean metrics to improve your processes.
The document summarizes an Agile coaching engagement at a luxury bathtub manufacturer in Italy. The company was experiencing delays, poor quality, and overload. Through interviews and process mapping, key issues were identified including unrealistic planning, approval delays, and frequent changes. Initial steps included educating managers on Agile principles and visualizing the development process on a board. This exposed issues like queues and helped accelerate some projects. Daily stand-ups and retrospectives helped improve collaboration and focus on problems. Metrics were tracked and WIP limits introduced to further improve flow. As a result, cycle times decreased by 20-50% across development phases.
LeanMantra's organised a one day Lean Startup workshop where participants learnt and practiced creation of business model, identifying riskiest assumption, designing experiments and validation it via interviewing customers
9 dev ops erik peet - demystifying devopsNMITSymposium
The document describes the phases of adopting a DevOps approach and interventions to progress through each phase. It discusses Erik Peet's experience implementing DevOps at Rabobank Nederland. The five phases are: 1) development and operations as separate worlds; 2) operations participates in development; 3) automation of processes; 4) closing the loop through continuous measurement and improvement; and 5) full symbiosis where development and operations are unified. The interventions outlined are: 1) experimenting; 2) automating processes; 3) continuously measuring and improving; 4) reorganizing teams; and 5) progressing through all phases of DevOps.
The document discusses various techniques for project estimation including three point estimation, Delphi method, planning poker, function point analysis, use case points, and PERT diagrams. It provides details on each technique including how they are conducted, their advantages and disadvantages, and when each is best applied. The key aspects that estimators need to consider for large scale projects are work partitioning challenges, increasing communication overhead with larger teams, and understanding how fast the project can realistically be completed based on its size.
This presentation focuses on root causes of terrible estimating in software projects. In addition to recommending best practices, this presentation demonstrates - using live project history data - how unenlightened management actually causes the estimate and project failures. These are management - not technical - problems.
You view and hear audio at www.owsoftware.com/demo/7signs/7-Signs-You-Have-a-Bad-Estimate-081112.mp4
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This document discusses common mistakes made in Oracle Business Intelligence development. It is organized by categories including the three layers of the RPD, system/DevOps/security issues, multidimensional modeling failures, front-end usage mistakes, and analysis/dashboard errors. Specific examples provided include using incorrect data types, not creating dimensional hierarchies, manual security management instead of roles, treating cubes like relational sources, and using OBI as an Excel exporting or data entry tool. The document is intended to review worst practices to improve core OBI development skills.
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Art Ligthart Service Identification Techniques
1. This Presentation Courtesy of the
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Service Identification
Techniques
Track: SOA Modeling & BPM
Art Ligthart
Jan-Willem Hubbers
Linda Terlouw
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2. About the workshop organizers
• Art Ligthart (art.ligthart@ordina.nl)
1988 – 1994: MSc in Business Administration
1994 – 2008: Solution Architect/Partner
• Jan-Willem Hubbers (jan.willem.hubbers@ordina.nl)
1988 – 1993: MSc in Computer Science
1994 – 1998: PhD in Computer Science
1998 – 2008: Solution Architect
• Linda Terlouw (linda.terlouw@ordina.nl)
1998 – 2003: MSc in Computer Science/
Business Information Technology
2003 – 2005: Consultant
2005 – 2008: Solution Architect
2005 – 2008: PhD Researcher
Goal and agenda
The goal of this workshop is to gain practical
experience with service identification techniques.
Agenda:
• 13:00 – 13:10: Introduction to Service Identification
• 13:10 – 13:35: Do-it-Yourselves Case Study
• 13:35 – 13:44: Feedback on Case Study
• 13:44 – 13:45: “Service Identifier of the Year” Prize Announcement
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3. Method 5: starting from current systems
Main idea:
• existing legacy applications as starting point
Pros:
• pragmatic and quick
• can be used in a context where little process or function models are available
Cons:
• Law of Conservation of Challenges
• possible duplicate services due to duplications in
Get Client Bank Account
Put Client on Blacklist
application landscape
Get Client Address
Arrange Payment
Get Client Data
Process Order
App A App B App C
Method 5: starting from current systems
• Step 1. Analyse:
• User interfaces
• Data model
• Menus
• System manual: functions
• Transactions
• Application interfaces
• Batches
• Output: Reports, …
• Step 2. List functionalities
• Step 3. Cluster functionalities
• Step 4. Determine candidate services
• Step 5. Feasibility study
• Step 6. Document services
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4. Method 1: process decomposition
Main idea:
• The business process is subdivided into sub-processes or decomposed into granular
activities and tasks. The lowest level tasks can consist of small, cohesive "logical units of
work" that are supported by the functionality offered by distinct services.
Pros:
• resulting services have a guaranteed fit with an organization's functional needs
• very intuitive (use it for proof-of-concepts and pilot projects)
Cons:
• may result in a (too large) gap between services and existing application landscape
• services can be tailored too specifically to the tasks and activities of one business process
(resulting in services that may not be reusable)
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App A App B App C
Method 1: process decomposition
• Step 1. Analyse process design
• Phases
• (sub)Processes
• Activities
• Tasks
• Step 2. Detail (if necessary)
• Ensure that each Task is a Logical Unit of Work
• Step 3. Determine candidate services
• Each Task is a candidate service
• Step 4. Feasibility study
• Remove duplicates
• Step 5. Document services
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5. And now you have to do some work!
• The CEO of the insurance company Protector
is fed up with the “never ending discussions of architects” and decided to organize
a pressure cooking workshop.
• During this workshop you are expected to identify services. Though time is limited, it would
severely disappoint the CEO of Protector if you would return without results!
Do-it-Yourselves Case Study (1/4)
• Please read the assignment carefully
• You have 2 minutes for reading it!!
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6. Do-it-Yourselves Case Study (2/4)
• Please make assignment A: Identifying Services from
Existing Systems
• You have 8 minutes!!
Do-it-Yourselves Case Study (1/4)
8 minutes have passed!
Do-it-Yourselves Case Study (3/4)
• Please make assignment B: Identifying Services from
Business Processes
• You have 13 minutes!!
Do-it-Yourselves Case Study (1/4)
13 minutes have passed!
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• A service is a task offered by a service provider to (potential)
service consumers that conforms to the following properties:
o accessible through an interface;
o described by a service specification;
o implementation is hidden to service consumers;
o autonomous;
o stateless.
• Service identification is about finding the right services!
Possible pitfalls: Perfect Non-Existent Services
Spaghetti Services
Services in Name Only
Babel Services And Never Shall They Meet Services
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