Enterprise Performance Management: Building A Closed Loop of Portfolios
Create a real-time map of your enterprise. The objective being to show that by simply connecting the dots, you will start to see dynamic and contextual relationships of ALL of you enterprise objects, thus allowing more confident decisions to be made, and in turn, drive portfolio improvements across your enterprise.
In a world of agile development and DevOps is architecture still relevant? Yes but having a lightweight approach that is compatible with an agile approach makes a lot of sense in the age of digital disruption.
Reporting, KPI Reporting, Data-Analytics, Data-Virtualization
Case Study on User Acceptance Testing (UAT) report which is an output of Executed test scripts/cases.
Enterprise Performance Management: Building A Closed Loop of Portfolios
Create a real-time map of your enterprise. The objective being to show that by simply connecting the dots, you will start to see dynamic and contextual relationships of ALL of you enterprise objects, thus allowing more confident decisions to be made, and in turn, drive portfolio improvements across your enterprise.
In a world of agile development and DevOps is architecture still relevant? Yes but having a lightweight approach that is compatible with an agile approach makes a lot of sense in the age of digital disruption.
Reporting, KPI Reporting, Data-Analytics, Data-Virtualization
Case Study on User Acceptance Testing (UAT) report which is an output of Executed test scripts/cases.
Estimation is critical to IT demand management as today's senior IT executives deal with a familiar challenge - how to balance the size of the development team with the company's software wish list. Modern estimation techniques offer critical insight into this challenge. In this presentation, you will learn the ins and outs of estimation and how to effectively utilize estimation to ensure project success.
Intelligent finance operations provide competitive edge to enterprisesGenpact Ltd
Looking to transform your finance operations? Genpact designs and runs intelligent finance operations that integrate technology and analytics to achieve competitive edge.
Offering the right product and the technology needed for that. Intelligent services for feature elicitation, prioritization, release optimization, development and evaluation.
Business capability mapping and business architectureSatyaIluri
Business architecture and capabilities mapping captures and encapsulates the essence of a business. Using capabilities enterprises can model their current and desired business capabilities with rich semantics and leverage these as Lego blocks to compose products/ initiatives, overlay them with value streams and processes, and capture requirements to evolve capabilities. Business capability mapping helps companies establish a common language, fosters business/IT alignment, helps reduce redundancy and rework, and aligns execution with strategy.
Anaplan for Sales Performance Management & Incentive Compensation ManagementIntellium
Anaplan provides cloud-based performance management solutions for large enterprises. Anaplan’s patented platform features a scalable and flexible inmemory modeling and data processing engine (HyperBlockTM) that enables
operations analysts to rapidly create and modify complex plans without requiring additional technical expertise. Anaplan scales to support detailed operational planning on daily intervals, and it can process large volumes of
production data for closed-loop planning and execution. Anaplan’s modular applications can be seamlessly linked to create enterprise solutions.
Anaplan for Sales is one solution that enterprises use to align sales territories, set quotas, pay commissions, and optimize price quotes in largescale
production environments.
KPIs are almost universally used in organizations of all types. But are they being used effectively? Are they making an impact on the system? Or are they expensive, consultant-driven projects that simply report performance? A well-designed KPI system provides the right agility to fit your business, and it keeps business in control.
In this webinar ( presentation), "Building a KPI Solution" you will
• Learn to discover and unleash the real value in your data
• Understand how you should plan for and design an effect KPI system
• Learn how to specify a solution, and how to avoid vendors that cannot deliver
This webinar (presentation) will also cover best practices in solution design, where to define your business logic, how to include analytics, and how to best work with the solution. Discover how organizations of all types are using actionable KPI systems to achieve business outcomes.
Application and Project Portfolio Management is the one of key tools for senior IT executives that helps them keep all their projects and applications aligned with overall business objectives.
Webinar slides delivered in conjunction with DataQualityPro.com.
We present key aspects of applying a lean approach to Data Quality Management using the latest Data Mining & Profiling tools. Includes a practical demonstration of applying these techniques to Financial Regulatory and compliance reporting.
Cloud Navigator is our tried and trusted way of helping you navigate quickly and effectively through the cloud. We offer incorporated cloud computing into your strategy, assessment of cloud computing scenarios & options, security & compliance check, sourcing & transformation advice, as well as adaptation of governance & operation.
Business Intelligence In Financial IndustryKartik Mehta
As more and more operations of banks operations and use of banking transactions by the customer is being performed on web, the amount of data is growing exponentially. To get insights into the future Business Intelligence in Financial Industry could be the way forward.
Estimation is critical to IT demand management as today's senior IT executives deal with a familiar challenge - how to balance the size of the development team with the company's software wish list. Modern estimation techniques offer critical insight into this challenge. In this presentation, you will learn the ins and outs of estimation and how to effectively utilize estimation to ensure project success.
Intelligent finance operations provide competitive edge to enterprisesGenpact Ltd
Looking to transform your finance operations? Genpact designs and runs intelligent finance operations that integrate technology and analytics to achieve competitive edge.
Offering the right product and the technology needed for that. Intelligent services for feature elicitation, prioritization, release optimization, development and evaluation.
Business capability mapping and business architectureSatyaIluri
Business architecture and capabilities mapping captures and encapsulates the essence of a business. Using capabilities enterprises can model their current and desired business capabilities with rich semantics and leverage these as Lego blocks to compose products/ initiatives, overlay them with value streams and processes, and capture requirements to evolve capabilities. Business capability mapping helps companies establish a common language, fosters business/IT alignment, helps reduce redundancy and rework, and aligns execution with strategy.
Anaplan for Sales Performance Management & Incentive Compensation ManagementIntellium
Anaplan provides cloud-based performance management solutions for large enterprises. Anaplan’s patented platform features a scalable and flexible inmemory modeling and data processing engine (HyperBlockTM) that enables
operations analysts to rapidly create and modify complex plans without requiring additional technical expertise. Anaplan scales to support detailed operational planning on daily intervals, and it can process large volumes of
production data for closed-loop planning and execution. Anaplan’s modular applications can be seamlessly linked to create enterprise solutions.
Anaplan for Sales is one solution that enterprises use to align sales territories, set quotas, pay commissions, and optimize price quotes in largescale
production environments.
KPIs are almost universally used in organizations of all types. But are they being used effectively? Are they making an impact on the system? Or are they expensive, consultant-driven projects that simply report performance? A well-designed KPI system provides the right agility to fit your business, and it keeps business in control.
In this webinar ( presentation), "Building a KPI Solution" you will
• Learn to discover and unleash the real value in your data
• Understand how you should plan for and design an effect KPI system
• Learn how to specify a solution, and how to avoid vendors that cannot deliver
This webinar (presentation) will also cover best practices in solution design, where to define your business logic, how to include analytics, and how to best work with the solution. Discover how organizations of all types are using actionable KPI systems to achieve business outcomes.
Application and Project Portfolio Management is the one of key tools for senior IT executives that helps them keep all their projects and applications aligned with overall business objectives.
Webinar slides delivered in conjunction with DataQualityPro.com.
We present key aspects of applying a lean approach to Data Quality Management using the latest Data Mining & Profiling tools. Includes a practical demonstration of applying these techniques to Financial Regulatory and compliance reporting.
Cloud Navigator is our tried and trusted way of helping you navigate quickly and effectively through the cloud. We offer incorporated cloud computing into your strategy, assessment of cloud computing scenarios & options, security & compliance check, sourcing & transformation advice, as well as adaptation of governance & operation.
Business Intelligence In Financial IndustryKartik Mehta
As more and more operations of banks operations and use of banking transactions by the customer is being performed on web, the amount of data is growing exponentially. To get insights into the future Business Intelligence in Financial Industry could be the way forward.
SAP® S&OP powered by SAP HANA®: Practical Steps to Launch for ResultsPlan4Demand
For more information visit www.plan4demand.com | email: info@plan4demand.com | or call 866-P4D-INFO
S&OP Solution Director, Andrew McCall, discusses how to best understand, evaluate and move forward with SAP S&OP powered by SAP HANA.
To view the recording of the event, visit http://bit.ly/SOPHANA
Key take-a-ways include:
• A quick review of the value and benefits of a high-performance Sales & Operations Planning Process
• A concise overview of exactly what functionality SAP's S&OP on HANA provides
• How the solution can best overcome common obstacles and drive process maturity
• Practical steps to get started
o Evaluating fit for your needs
o Framing a practical fit
o Planning requirements necessary for a successful pilot
If you are fatigued from a "Brute-Force" data intensive S&OP process that is often a day late and a dollar short, this solution is for you. Real-Time Information is no longer out of reach.
The event materials, questions we did not get to answer during the Q&A, as well as additional S&OP Materials, can be found in our S&OP Leadership Exchange LinkedIn Forum. We'd like to extend an invitation to you to join and leverage the experience of your peers & industry experts. http://linkd.in/SOPLeadershipExchange
If you’d be interested in setting up a one-on-one discussion with Andrew McCall, surrounding your process, needs & any specific questions you have, email jaime.reints@plan4demand.com to set up a time.
Check out this webinar on-demand at http://www.plan4demand.com/Video-Webinar-SAP-SOP-powered-by-SAP-HANA-Practical-Steps-to-Launch-for-Results
Cloudbyz ppm, integrated enterprise ppm-alm-apm on force.comDinesh Sheshadri
Cloudbyz PPM is an integrated enterprise project portfolio management (PPM), application life cycle management (ALM) and application portfolio management (APM) built on Salesforce 1 platform. Cloudbyz PPM is focused on providing agility, real-time visibility and enhanced collaboration and productivity to CIO / IT organization.
6.18.2013 - 2013 - Prj & Port Mgmt SftDev - Portfolio Management - For the ...IBM Rational
Webcast Series: Project and Portfolio Management Software Development
Title: 2013 - Prj & Port Mgmt SftDev - Portfolio Management - For the Manager - Making Good Decisions
Date: 6-18-2013
Presenter: Chris Wolters
Integrated Enterprise PPM, ALM and APM on force.com cloudPoornima N
Cloudbyz IT portfolio management solution is built on force.com cloud platform. Solution covers project portfolio Management(PPM), Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) and Application Portfolio Management(APM).
Microsoft Project in Manufacturing and Resources - Presented by AtidanDavid J Rosenthal
In these demanding economic times, many executives are facing sharper scrutiny of their discretionary spending. This increases the importance of effectively identifying, selecting, and delivering product portfolios that best align with an organization’s business strategy. Best-practice portfolio selection techniques provide a handshake between value optimization — that is, alignment with business priorities and maximizing ROI — and resource utilization, meaning the understanding of resource capabilities and availability. Together, these techniques help PMOs recommend not only which product to undertake, but to forecast their delivery.
Vision
Organizations can make business strategies more objective by adopting structured techniques for defining, prioritizing, and communicating business imperatives, and consistently evaluating each competing initiative that contributes to strategic priorities. Adopting a structured portfolio selection process helps organizations accomplish the following:
Define and communicate the business strategy: Many organizations publish mission statements and high-level strategic objectives. Few of them, however, break down their strategy into actionable, measurable, and unique business drivers. Defining and effectively communicating the business strategy provides a blueprint that organizational departments can understood and implement.
Drive executive consensus around business driver priorities: Objectively prioritizing the business strategy and driving executive consensus can help your organization more effectively assess competing initiatives and select the optimal portfolio.
Objectively prioritize competing products from multiple dimensions: Prioritizing products by using a variety of value measurements (e.g., strategic value, financial value, and risk) provides a framework for assessing requests from multiple dimensions and for creating a common currency with which to make comparisons.
Identify the optimal portfolio under varying budget and portfolio constraints: Facing budget cuts or requests that exceed the allocated budget creates a daunting task for PMOs. Additional variables, such as inter-product dependencies and regulatory requirements, can further compound the problem, creating a challenge in effectively modeling scenarios that will help identify the right products for an organization to undertake. Accurately capturing realistic cost and benefit estimates for products early in their lifecycle helps executives effectively select portfolios that maximize ROI under varying budget constraints and measure financial performance during product execution.
Effectively communicate tradeoffs: Budget, available resources, dependencies, pet products, and compliance requirements can potentially affect the overall value of selected product portfolios. Being able to identify and alter constraints helps PMOs communicate tradeoffs to the executive team and enhance the potential value gained from the resulting
My Single Point is a leading supplier of Enterprise Execution Software. Our Blue-chip customers use My Single Point to translate their strategy from the board-room to execution across the enterprise. Our modular platform ensures business goals and directives are effectively communicated and implemented throughout the organization.
Contact us for a demo www.itaasc.com
Developing a Modernization Strategy: Evaluating the Options by Chris KoppeFresche Solutions
Chris Koppe, VP of Corporate Strategy at Fresche Legacy presented Developing a Modernization Strategy: Evaluating the Options during iBelieve 2015.
This presentation covers:
- Modernization strategies
- Establishing goals and objectives
- Strategy definition
- Planning
- Getting funding and support
Cadrage en cycle court : Veolia optimise la gestion de la ressource en eau à ...Agile En Seine
Présenté par Elsa Pairaud, Frédéric Fleury et Jean-Laurent Gazave le 21 septembre 2022 à Agile en Seine
Cadrer un nouveau service digital en cycle court : l’Agile au service d’un enjeu coeur métier à fort impact.
Dans le cadre de son plan stratégique “Impact”, et de son ambition de devenir l’acteur de référence de la Transformation Écologique, Veolia a l’objectif de construire et de déployer à l’échelle mondiale dix solutions digitales d’ici 2023.
Parmis ces 10 solutions digitales, Water Resource Advisor a pour ambition de fournir aux Collectivités en charge des services d’eau sur leur territoire un outil permettant d’anticiper le dérèglement climatique en optimisant la gestion de la ressource en eau à l’échelle mondiale (disponibilité et qualité de la ressource).
Afin de cadrer cette solution, Veolia a sollicité une équipe pluridisciplinaire, composée d’un expert Intelligence Collective Devoteam Digital Impulse, ainsi que d’un Product Manager et d’un Business Analyst Devoteam Creative Tech.
Ce dispositif s’est accosté à l’équipe Veolia pour réaliser en 2 mois le cadrage en cycle court de la solution digitale, et ainsi agir comme un véritable catalyseur au sein de l’écosystème complexe de Veolia (DSI Corporate, pays, experts métiers).
Résultats :
– Minimum Lovable Product cadré en 2 mois et GO TO REAL donné par la Digital Core Team à l’issue du cadrage
– Mise en place des fondamentaux de l’agilité, installation des rôles clés pour la phase de réalisation, initialisation et priorisation du backlog, initialisation des sprints
– 7 pays sponsors engagés à co-construire et déployer le MLP, et à assumer les coûts de RUN.
ANI | Business Agility Day @Gurugram | Are you a responsible Business | Dilje...AgileNetwork
Abstract:
In today's ever-changing environment, every business needs to deliver to its customers and stakeholders. Customers need the best value for money and convenience and Stakeholders need Return on their investment. Until business need, this cusp and ready to embrace the changes needed, would not be a successful business. This requires the utmost ability to respond to the changes in the environment. This requires business agility.
Key Takeaways:
1. Why business agility is very crucial in today's environment?
2. How to be agile as a business
3. Role of technology in this agility
4. Common principles between Business Agility and Software Agility
5. Ingredients to business agility.
Practical Product Management for new Product ManagersAmarpreet Kalkat
This presentation provides tips and tools for a professional who is new to Product Management function (in software).
It does not cover the full lifecycle of a product and primarily focuses on the product development/product building phase. As such, it is more usable for professionals working on existing products than for those in the process of building new products from scratch.
Business and IT alignment through effective Project & Program Portfolio Manag...Alan Kan
Business and IT alignment through effective Project & Program Portfolio Management.
Presented at IBM Innovate 2011 in Sydney and Melbourne in Australia in July 2011.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Business and IT alignment through effective Project & Program Portfolio Management
1. ® 19- July, Sydney, Australia 21- July, Melbourne, Australia
2. Business and IT alignment through effective Project & Program Portfolio Management John MacLeod Alan Kan
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5. Value-Driven Development Business Feasibility Business Planning Ideas Launch Gate Develop Launch Market Opportunity Technical Feasibility Market Planning Technical Planning Idea Gate Business Gate Market Gate Business and Technology Risk Resources and costs
6. A Process for Project Portfolio Management Project Proposal Assessment Business Case Prioritise Execute in RTC, Dashboard in FP Value realisation Backlog Ex: Reqs Relevant project proposal Reject or rejustify Proposal aligned with business, strategy and enterprise architecture Financial OK Include in portfolio Capacity exisits? Project backlog Periodic reviews Proposal elicit from business / enterprise architecture / other sourses
13. The basis: pairwise comparison Compare two alternatives at a time Relative comparison Advanced algorithm to minimise # of comparisons One criterion at a time
21. All The Pieces Are Critical Portfolio Project A Project B Project C Portfolio: based on business strategy and market opportunity, align investment with strategy Project: optimise capabilities to maximize impact Requirements: manage and prioritise scope to support capabilities Program: manage cross project initiatives and programs
Automate manual activities… Achieve this via workflows Information is in one place Generate reports
By centralising project portfolio information in Telelogic FOCAL POINT you can escape from the chaos of coping with multiple different formats and media, by enabling business units to submit project requests, and project managers to submit project status information, through a simple, configurable web form. Data can also be imported from spreadsheets and automatically parsed from emails to the FOCAL POINT server. Using FOCAL POINT role-based views and filters you can easily organise information and produce overviews that enable you to quickly interrogate the database to provide up to date information on the status of new project requests and in-flight projects.
[While animation building] You probably have tens or hundred’s of feature requests from which to select the requirements to implement. On what criteria do you make those decisions? Organisations are usually looking to select those requirements that deliver the maximum value to their customers and the business in relation to the time and resources to implement them. But this isn't simple – there are also many influencing factors like competition, market research, requests from existing customers you want to keep happy and technology advances that you think you should take advantage of. With all these factors to consider its hard to see the ‘forest through the trees’ and select the right requirements. But what if you had a way to more easily select requirements according to customer or market value and visualise the results in a way that makes the best requirements stand out. What if you could easily see which requirements delivered the most value … (CLICK TO ANIMATE) in relation to the time and resources estimated to implement them. This simple visualisation would enable you to select the right things out of all the things you could do and on the basis that you will maximise value to your customers and to your organisation. And rather than, as is often the case, having a decision making process based on the customer or salesperson who is shouting loudest at the product manager, you have a more effective and structured basis on which decisions are made, and even if it doesn’t remove the shouting – at least you have a way to justify why the decision were made.
This is the basis for the decision-support. Unless you provide the prioritisations, Focal Point can’t help you make decisions. But the procedure is extremely straight-forward and simple to use. And it’s based exactly on what we humans are good at, relieveing us of all the things that we may not be so well equipped for. [click] First of all, we compare two alternatives at a time. That we can handle. In case we need detailed information about the alternatives, it’s all there for us. [click] We also stick to one criterion at the time, so we don’t mix up cost, risk, value for X and value for Y. We break these wicked problems down to a level where we can handle them. At any time you can of course select another criterion if you want to. [click] Focal Point employs relative comparisons. Unless there are actual figuers involved, we don’t want to introduce any false sense of precision. Besides, it’s usually a lot easier to get a consensus around where to put a dot on a scale without figures – otherwise you may end up in discussions like ”Does 4 really mean twice as valuable as 2?” (Cf. Is 90 degrees twice as hot as 45?) A lot of scales arent suitable for this type of task. [click] The number of comparisons is kept to an absolute minimum by a scientifically validated (published) algorithm.
With Telelogic FOCAL POINT you get real-time portfolio status overviews – you don’t need to create reports, you just simply go to the FOCAL POINT view that provides the information you want – its always up-to-date with the latest information in the repository. Automatically generated statistics enable you to see, for example, what % of the budget is being allocated to which types of project. Updated views can show you how your projects are performing against estimates and automatic email notifications can be sent to management if, for example, the actual cost of a project exceeds the estimated cost. Gannt charts provide an easy to interpret overview of projects and milestones and enable the PMO to monitor, and if required, level out peaks and troughs in resource utilisation. Each user role can have its own dashboard as the first view seen when logging in. For example a project manager might only see information pertaining to the projects they own, but a PMO director would see higher level information about the complete portfolio. Having an up to date view of what’s going on drastically reduces time spent on reporting and means that the PMO can be much more pro-active in taking action when projects are going off track.