Yearly Archives: 2014

• The Good, The Bad, and The Metrics

  Last week Mike Lyles & Jay Philips presented the “The Good, The Bad, and The Metrics” at STPCon Spring 2014. Below is the info from the presentation and the corresponding slides: Session Info: Has your organization ever considered replacing a tester that did not write, for example, 15 test cases per day? Is the testing […]

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  One Bite At A Time

  Enterprise business intelligence projects are often very large because there’s data coming from all different sources and each area has their own metrics. You may find yourself stuck getting data or KPI’s from one side of the organization, which holds up the entire project. You want your BI dashboard to show everything but it takes […]

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  Can You Get A Comprehensive View Of Your Business?

  Does your BI dashboard provide you with a comprehensive view of your business? If you don’t have a comprehensive view how do you know if your business is meeting its goals & objectives? Business data is stored in a variety of different systems, 3rd party or partner sources, databases, etc. When data is spread out […]

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  I Am An Industry Standard Metric So You Must Implement Me

  I’m sure there have been tons of times that you’ve heard “It’s an industry standard so we must implement this” or “I was at a conference the other week and they were talking about best practices so we need to implement it this way”. We’ve all heard those sayings multiple times and we just cringe […]

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  Why Your Company Needs a Visual Online Dashboard

  You probably hear the saying “What gets measured, gets done.” lots of times or “You can’t measure what you can’t see”. Your company probably already have tons of metrics circulating around that only focus on one area (defects, hours, etc.) but you can’t see the whole picture. How do you currently determine if your applications […]

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  When Is A BI Project Complete?

  You purchased a BI tool and brought in BI consultants to get it up and running. The tool is working great, pulling data automatically from all your systems. The process is working great but does that mean your BI project is complete? The answer is no. A BI project is not complete until: All users […]

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