This document provides guidance on developing analysis and feedback loops for monitoring and evaluation. It outlines a 4-step process: 1) review client map, indicators and tools; 2) map anticipated information flow; 3) document decisions; 4) review plan against resources. Feedback loops should meet client needs within project capabilities. A case example demonstrates reflection cycles, knowledge management schedules, and data flow management. Common pitfalls include designs that are unmanageable or lose focus on serving multiple clients' needs. Continuing education options are provided.
Presenting a mental framework for strategic analysis of project portfolios in an organization. The example used is IT-Business alignment, but many components of this framework may be used in other applications.
Flevy.com - Pricing a Consulting ProjectDavid Tracy
This is a partial preview of the document found here:
https://flevy.com/browse/business-document/pricing-a-consulting-project-94
Description:
This presentation discusses the basic principles behind designing and pricing a management consulting type project.
Modernisation Strategy for Science at RBG Kew. The presentation is part of a "toolkit" delivered to help Kew to rationalise, consolidate and integrate disparate & legacy Science Applications and Data.
Presenting a mental framework for strategic analysis of project portfolios in an organization. The example used is IT-Business alignment, but many components of this framework may be used in other applications.
Flevy.com - Pricing a Consulting ProjectDavid Tracy
This is a partial preview of the document found here:
https://flevy.com/browse/business-document/pricing-a-consulting-project-94
Description:
This presentation discusses the basic principles behind designing and pricing a management consulting type project.
Modernisation Strategy for Science at RBG Kew. The presentation is part of a "toolkit" delivered to help Kew to rationalise, consolidate and integrate disparate & legacy Science Applications and Data.
Presentation slides from my BABOK Study Group that I led.
Those materials will help you pass BABOK certification exams. Study Group was aimed at individuals self preparing to CCBA or CBAP exams.
Subject of this presentation: Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring.
Please visit my blog: http://zubkiewicz.com/
Project scope can be described as "the work that needs to be accomplished to deliver the End Result (product or service or other project's objectives) with the specified features and functions that includes meetings, reports, analysis and all the other parts of Project Management.
Lindorff Group is a leading outsourced receivables management company in Europe, and one of the leading on a global basis. For the past three–four years, they have increasingly adopted agile practices, especially in a large scale project converting and improving an old system written in Powerhouse to new .Net–technology.
The results from adopting agile practices have been mostly positive, however, there were challenging issues related to requirement handling and estimation that needed attention. In 2008, Lindorff joined a project with Symphonical funded by Innovation Norway. The purpose of the project was to develop software for requirements handling, estimation and knowledge management for the Symphonical platform. Symphonical is a flexible web–based collaboration platform, where users can brainstorm, plan, organize and coordinate any process.
This talk presents results from a case study detailing the challenges faced by Lindorff as they simultaneously adopted agile practices and introduced a new system for requirement handling and estimation. According to the respondents of the case study, Lindorff appears to have improved on two of the main points of concern presented in the 2007 study: requirement handling and estimation. Many users report that the introduction of agile methods and the platform Symphonical has improved the quality of important work processes. Furthermore, they report that the introduction of Symphonical has provided a framework for structured discussions regarding individual requirements, which helps maintaining the focus of IT projects. Furthermore, the flexible sharing regime where one can easily share information to external participants improves the effectiveness and efficiency of collaboration with all project contributors.
Best Practices in Recommender System ChallengesAlan Said
Recommender System Challenges such as the Netflix Prize, KDD Cup, etc. have contributed vastly to the development and adoptability of recommender systems. Each year a number of challenges or contests are organized covering different aspects of recommendation. In this tutorial and panel, we present some of the factors involved in successfully organizing a challenge, whether for reasons purely related to research, industrial challenges, or to widen the scope of recommender systems applications.
Using the Strengthening the Dairy Value Chain project in Bangladesh, CARE makes the business case for why empowering women farmers is not only essential for improving social and economic outcomes but an effective way to strengthen supply chains.
Esta presentacion se trata del tema de micro finanza inclusiva rural y su rol en una estrategia de graduación de los programas públicos de transferencias monetarias condicionales.
Las transferencias monetarias condicionales son una características de las políticas públicas de muchos de los países de América Latina y, mientras han tenidos impactos importantes en la lucha a la pobreza y en la distribución de renda, encontrar una estrategia de salida es uno de los principales desafíos. Esta también es la situación en Perú con el programa de transferencias “Juntos”.
CARE Perú a partir del programa de inclusión financiera PUMRI (financiado por Barclays) que trabaja con las mujeres beneficiarias de Juntos , ha testado un modelo de estrategia de graduación, y que fue utilizado para hacer incidencia con el Gobierno para que adopte estrategias de graduación de la pobreza a nivel nacional.
The economic development unit held a webinar January 16th on how various country offices and individuals in CARE are developing and applying private sector engagement strategies. We heard from the PSE Director at CARE Bangladesh, the PSE Coordinator at CARE Vietnam, the PSE advisor for CARE UK, and a PSE Specialist in the Asia Regional Management Unit on their experiences, successes and the challenges of developing and implementing PSE Strategies at the country and regional levels. Some key questions the presentation addressed were: How can CARE strategically engage the private sector? Should CARE target domestic or international companies? How does CARE balance the tension between raising funds and achieving impact?
Resumen: CARE Bolivia ha desarrollado un modelo de intervención y un manual para capacitar los Gobiernos Municipales en tema de Desarrollo Económico e implementar la ley de descentralización administrativa y las competencias municipales de en el DS 28421 de una manera que sea favorable al desarrollo rural inclusivo. CARE Bolivia ha desarrollado en modelo en la región amazónica – en Pando – lo ha adaptado a la región endina en Chuquisaca, sistematizado, testado, y ahora fue formalmente avalado por el Gobierno central y está en fase piloto en dos municipios en Chuquisaca antes de ser llevado a escala.
Los temas de desarrollo ecoómico y gobernabilidad tienen importantes sinergias que CARE Bolivia está apalancandoy el modelo de CARE Bolivia está siendo mejorado para fortalecer la componente de igualdad de género.
This presentation highlights the joint effort that CARE and Practical Action have undertaken in Peru to reach the extremely poor with extension services. CARE's private sector model for technical assistance provision and Practical Action's Kamayoq model have both been highly successful and offer a strategy for reaching the poorest smallholder farmers with inputs and education to better agricultural and livestock value chains.
This presentation focuses on the role of Multi-Stakeholder Platforms (MSPs) and the importance of private sector engagement in CARE Ethiopia's GRAD program. MSPs are an innovative tool used by CARe to build relationships among all the stakeholders and develop and improve the program's interventions.
Una presentacion sobre el proyecto SDVC en Bangladesh (Cadena de Valor de los Lácteos Sustentable). Este proyecto constituye un ejemplo muy valuable de aplicación de los principios programáticos de articulación a mercados con un enfoque de cadenas de valor, y además de los impresionantes resultados en términos de números de productores alcanzados, mejoras en los ingresos y empoderamiento de las mujeres, tiene algunas metodologías y modelos de actuación innovadores y bien formalizados que pueden ser replicados o adaptados a otros contextos, incluyendo en América Latina. Por ejemplo: la red de tiendas e insumos agrícolas organizada en micro franquías, los asocios con el sector privado dentro de la cadena, las herramientas de organización y auto-monitoreo de las asociaciones de productoras/es, los sistemas de M&E, entre otros.
This presentation from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) provides an overview of the CARE Strengthening the Dairy Value Chain Project impact evaluation design.
Our presentation on producer group mobilization for the Strengthening the Dairy Value Chain project in Bangladesh, delivered at the Market Engagement and Learning Event, September 2012.
This presentation on microfranchising dairy input shops for SDVC in Bangladesh was delivered at the Market Engagement and Learning Event, September 2012.
This presentation on the Strengthening the Dairy Value Chain's market access strategy was delivered at the Market Engagement and Learning Event in Bangladesh, September 2012.
Our presentation on M&E for the Strengthening the Dairy Value Chain project in Bangladesh, delivered at the Market Engagement and Learning Event, September 2012.
This presentation shares CARE Peru's experience promoting the establishment of independent, private sector service providers in various agricultural value chains.
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/
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.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
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Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
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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.
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Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
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In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
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A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
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4. GETTING
STARTED
Stay within limits of
project resources and
capabilities! Only use
feedback loops that
meet the needs of M&E
clients!
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5. MATERIALS / INPUTS
RECOMMENDED
Market Engagement Indicator Information
Sheet
M&E systems from other CARE projects or
programs
Information on any donor requirements on
feedback loops (reporting frequency, content
required, etc.)
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6. STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE
• Review your M&E CLIENT Map, Resources &
Capabilities, Indicators and Tools
1
• Map the Anticipated Flow of Information: Point of
Collection Point of Analysis M&E Client(s)
2
• Document Your Decisions
3
• Review your Plan against your Resources and
Capacity Table
4
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7. STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE:
STEP 1
Take a moment to:
•Review your M&E client map and
the decisions you have made about
indicators and tools
•Re-review your assessment of the
resources and capabilities of the
project
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8. STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE
• Review your M&E CLIENT Map, Resources &
Capabilities, Indicators and Tools
1
• Map the Anticipated Flow of Information:
Point of Collection Point of Analysis
2 M&E Client(s)
• Document Your Decisions
3
• Review your Plan against your Resources and
Capacity Table
4
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9. STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE:
STEP 2
Consider Information Flow from both Types of
Routine Measurement
Indicators Routine Observation
•Consider how to make the •Almost always intended to
gathered data useful for as serve field staff and project
many people as possible managers first
•Data flows upward from •Ensures the project is able to
participants through field staff quickly understand, reflect and
and a series of other internal act on the direct experiences
clients before reaching the and perceptions of field staff
donor and managers
•Feedback from the donor may •‘Paths’ for this information will
or may not be strong, but is be very short feedback loops
progressively diluted •Findings from these collections
can be quickly analyzed and
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10. STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE:
STEP 2
Donor
Example of a Common Donor-
HQ / focused M&E System Feedback
Senior CO
Staff
Loop
Project
Key Manager
-Data flow
-Feedback loop
Field
Line width illustrates Coordinator
strength of data flow
Participant
Field Links to other local
Firm
Staff stakeholders
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Participant
HH
11. STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE:
STEP 2Donor
Example of an Ideal M&E
HQ / Senior System with Feedback
CO Staff
Loops
Project
Key
Manager
-Data flow
-Feedback loop
Field
Line width illustrates
strength of data flow Coordinator
Participant
Firm Field Links to other local
Staff stakeholders
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t
HH
12. STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE:
STEP Loop Participatory Exercise
Feedback 2
• Convene a meeting of CARE program staff and
implementing partners
• Build a diagram on the wall using different colors
of note cards and different colors of string
• Facilitate a discussion regarding placement of
cards and strings and whether this will meet M&E
goals
• Document outputs of the meeting.
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13. STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE
• Review your M&E CLIENT Map, Resources &
Capabilities, Indicators and Tools
1
• Map the Anticipated Flow of Information: Point of
Collection Point of Analysis M&E Client(s)
2
• Document Your Decisions
3
• Review your Plan against your Resources and
Capacity Table
4
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14. STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE:
STEP 3
•Fill in the final columns in the M&E Indicator
Information Sheet:
Data Collection Frequency
Data Analysis and Feedback Loop Description
Data Collection Responsibility
•Develop a narrative description of the data collection
frequencies, alignment with priority M&E client
needs, feedback loop structure and rationale and
data collection responsibilities.
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15. STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE
• Review your M&E CLIENT Map, Resources &
Capabilities, Indicators and Tools
1
• Map the Anticipated Flow of Information: Point of
Collection Point of Analysis M&E Client(s)
2
• Document Your Decisions
3
• Review your Plan against your Resources
and Capacity Table
4
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16. STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE:
STEP 4
Again, review decisions against
project resources and capacities!
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17. CASE EXAMPLE
SDVC
• Tasks, frequency and output in a regular
reflection cycle
• Schedule of knowledge
management
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18. CASE EXAMPLE
SDVC M&E Staff’s Role Distribution
Technical Posted at Rangpur
Coordinator- Lead in Design
M&E
Implement M&E tasks at Rangpur
Reporting and Information sharing
Directly Supervise TO-M&E and
Indirectly M&ESO
Represent M&E Unit internally and
externally.
Technical Posted at Bogra
Officer-M&E
Assist TC-M&E in design
Ensure Data entry & data
management
M&E Support
Officer Implement M&E tasks at Bogra
Assist TC-M&E in reporting
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Data backup and filing
19. CASE EXAMPLE
SCHEMATIC DIAGRAM OF SDVC DATA FLOW
MANAGEMENT Field level
Project Participants
Team level
Field Facilitators
Project Officers (Team leaders)
Region
M&E Support Technical Officer- &National
Officer M&E level
CARE-B Technical Coordinator-M&E SDVC Staffs GOB/Private
sectors/INGO
International
level
CARE-USA DONOR Other International
Audiences
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20. COMMON
PITFALLS
Designing a system that is unmanageable. It is important to balance
interests with resources and focus on the priority feedback loops. This is why
it is important to review the resources and capacity sheet as the conclusion of
this step.
Losing focus on the multiple clients you are trying to serve. As many
M&E systems focus largely on meeting donor expectations, it is easy to
narrow down your feedback loops to focus on that particular client at the
expense of all others. Be sure that the feedback loops you design will be
sufficient to meet the needs of multiple M&E clients. If this seems impossible,
you may need to engage the donor in additional discussions about how the
M&E system will be structured.
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22. Want to Learn More?
Multiple ways to continue the discussion
and continue learning:
• Initiate a monthly session on the M&E guide and
case studies from across CARE. Contact
cpennotti@care.org
• Join the Market Engagement Community of
Practice on LinkedIn.
• Join a task force to review and refine the universal
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indicators. Contact nardi@careinternational.org
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Editor's Notes
Dive into detail on these rules on page 63.
Some avenues for creating short feedback loops include: -Weekly or monthly status meetings for staff at different levels within the team;-The establishment of specialized task forces responsible for sharing observations, analyzing what these mean for the project and communicating this back to the team; -Quarterly presentations and project reviews by key staff and clients; -Weekly or routine team texts or email exchanges about particular indicators