Tthe 8-step business analysis process that you can apply whether you are in an agile environment or a traditional one, whether you are purchasing off-the-shelf software or building custom code, whether you are responsible for a multi-million dollar project or a one-week project.
Depending on the size and complexity of your project, you can go through these steps quickly or slowly, but to get to a successful outcome you must go through them
Developing an Acquisition Centre of Excellence for Effective Sourcing and Sup...Alan McSweeney
Acquisition skills are necessary to support move from in-sourcing to outsourcing of projects, solutions and services. Effective and appropriate sourcing allows organisations react quickly while reducing costs, ensuring repeatability and improving returns on sourcing activities. Acquisition includes sourcing of suppliers, defining services, awarding contracts to supplier agreements, managing the delivery of contracted services, Getting good at acquisition is a very worthwhile investment for any organisation. Acquisitions skills are essential for implementing sourcing strategy effectively. It ensures consistent and cost-effective outcomes from sourcing activities. Use CMMI for Acquisition maturity model structure to develop an acquisition capability programme. This provides a structured approach with a set of activities and tasks.
Tthe 8-step business analysis process that you can apply whether you are in an agile environment or a traditional one, whether you are purchasing off-the-shelf software or building custom code, whether you are responsible for a multi-million dollar project or a one-week project.
Depending on the size and complexity of your project, you can go through these steps quickly or slowly, but to get to a successful outcome you must go through them
Developing an Acquisition Centre of Excellence for Effective Sourcing and Sup...Alan McSweeney
Acquisition skills are necessary to support move from in-sourcing to outsourcing of projects, solutions and services. Effective and appropriate sourcing allows organisations react quickly while reducing costs, ensuring repeatability and improving returns on sourcing activities. Acquisition includes sourcing of suppliers, defining services, awarding contracts to supplier agreements, managing the delivery of contracted services, Getting good at acquisition is a very worthwhile investment for any organisation. Acquisitions skills are essential for implementing sourcing strategy effectively. It ensures consistent and cost-effective outcomes from sourcing activities. Use CMMI for Acquisition maturity model structure to develop an acquisition capability programme. This provides a structured approach with a set of activities and tasks.
A revised TOGAF ADM for whole-of-enterprise architecture developmentTetradian Consulting
Two-page summary of whole-of-enterprise architecture methodology from book "Bridging the Silos" (Tom Graves: Tetradian Books, 2008) - use this as a reference sheet whilst working.
[Based in part on TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework); extensions (c) Tetradian 2008]
While going through in-depth on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Architecture (EA) as part of my Oracle SOA and TOGAF certification, I had questions as to how SOA fits in the EA, and how TOGAF for EA support adopting SOA.
Here is an attempt to address that...
Benefits realisation management is one of the most important things than an organisation needs to do... but not at any cost
presented by Steve Parker
Tuesday 28th June 2016
APM Value Management SIG
Critical linkages between value and benefits
In this session we are going to consider some lessons that Business Architecture practitioners might learn from Lean. Business Architecture has traditionally delivered ivory tower models which are slow to generate, hard to understand, and require heavy maintenance.
We'll start with a '101' level introduction to Business Architecture, discussing both the process of defining a Business Architecture and also some of the models that Business Architecture produces. We'll also try to understand the value of Business Architecture.
We'll then start to map some Lean Principles to Business Architecture and try and understand how we could potentially optimise the value stream. We'll consider where Business Architecture can be wasteful, discussing the diminishing value of information and the concept of analysis paralysis.
Finally I'll introduce you to a leaner approach to Business Architecture that focusses on rapid techniques for model generation and heavier engagement of system actors in both the development and the maintenance of models. I'll also share my technique for rapid enterprise modelling which can help you to build a capability model in hours rather than weeks/months.
SharePoint for Project Management (2016)wandersick
An introduction to SharePoint Online of Office 365 with a focus on project management.
In this presentation, I demonstrate SharePoint basics, creating a site, managing projects using SharePoint and misc. features. It is dedicated to my teacher, Mr. Leung, who encouraged me to present SharePoint to inspire fellow classmates on how to better manage their projects.
Main introduced features:
- SharePoint basics
- Creating sites (under OneDrive for Business)*
- Managing projects
*Note: Sites created this way are traditional Sites instead of the new style of Sites created by Office 365 Groups
Other introduced features:
- Co-Authoring
- Checking Out/In
- Version History
- Alerting
- Syncing with OneDrive for Business
- Site Mailbox (Discontinued. Available in Office 365 Groups at the time of writing)
- OneNote
- Modern UI and Classic UI
- Mobile Access
- Customizing Site Design
- User Management
- Sharing a SharePoint Site
- Wiki Page
- All Site Contents
A revised TOGAF ADM for whole-of-enterprise architecture developmentTetradian Consulting
Two-page summary of whole-of-enterprise architecture methodology from book "Bridging the Silos" (Tom Graves: Tetradian Books, 2008) - use this as a reference sheet whilst working.
[Based in part on TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework); extensions (c) Tetradian 2008]
While going through in-depth on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Architecture (EA) as part of my Oracle SOA and TOGAF certification, I had questions as to how SOA fits in the EA, and how TOGAF for EA support adopting SOA.
Here is an attempt to address that...
Benefits realisation management is one of the most important things than an organisation needs to do... but not at any cost
presented by Steve Parker
Tuesday 28th June 2016
APM Value Management SIG
Critical linkages between value and benefits
In this session we are going to consider some lessons that Business Architecture practitioners might learn from Lean. Business Architecture has traditionally delivered ivory tower models which are slow to generate, hard to understand, and require heavy maintenance.
We'll start with a '101' level introduction to Business Architecture, discussing both the process of defining a Business Architecture and also some of the models that Business Architecture produces. We'll also try to understand the value of Business Architecture.
We'll then start to map some Lean Principles to Business Architecture and try and understand how we could potentially optimise the value stream. We'll consider where Business Architecture can be wasteful, discussing the diminishing value of information and the concept of analysis paralysis.
Finally I'll introduce you to a leaner approach to Business Architecture that focusses on rapid techniques for model generation and heavier engagement of system actors in both the development and the maintenance of models. I'll also share my technique for rapid enterprise modelling which can help you to build a capability model in hours rather than weeks/months.
SharePoint for Project Management (2016)wandersick
An introduction to SharePoint Online of Office 365 with a focus on project management.
In this presentation, I demonstrate SharePoint basics, creating a site, managing projects using SharePoint and misc. features. It is dedicated to my teacher, Mr. Leung, who encouraged me to present SharePoint to inspire fellow classmates on how to better manage their projects.
Main introduced features:
- SharePoint basics
- Creating sites (under OneDrive for Business)*
- Managing projects
*Note: Sites created this way are traditional Sites instead of the new style of Sites created by Office 365 Groups
Other introduced features:
- Co-Authoring
- Checking Out/In
- Version History
- Alerting
- Syncing with OneDrive for Business
- Site Mailbox (Discontinued. Available in Office 365 Groups at the time of writing)
- OneNote
- Modern UI and Classic UI
- Mobile Access
- Customizing Site Design
- User Management
- Sharing a SharePoint Site
- Wiki Page
- All Site Contents