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 […]
Continue Reading...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 […]
Continue Reading...Your organization may already have lots of metrics and dashboards but do they really have the information a CEO needs and wants to know? CEO’s want to be able to get a complete picture of progress on initiatives, goals, and projects when ever they want NOT when you can provide the information. So stop publishing […]
Continue Reading...Poor data or “lack of understanding the data” are cited as the #1 reasons for overrunning project costs. Check out the infographic for more info.
Continue Reading...There are lots of whitepapers, presentations & blogs out on the Internet that tell you to create one metric over another metric. It’s great to know about the variety of different metrics available but do you really need all of them? This presentation reduces the complexity to 6 key steps in creating actionable metrics that […]
Continue Reading...You know how it goes, projects get put into queue, hours are logged, code is created, defects are logged, etc. There’s data being entered/changed in a variety of systems like PlanView, ClearQuest, QualityCenter, etc. Someone is requesting metrics so they can see what’s happened, what’s happening and what might happen. You try your best to […]
Continue Reading...There has been a hot topic on LinkedIn about what the hottest trend is for Business Intelligence (BI). Some of the responses have been around dashboards, mobility, integration. From my point of view the hottest and important items not trends for BI to actually work are so you can make objective decisions are: Ability to […]
Continue Reading...There is so much buzz going on around big data, dashboards, metrics, etc.. Companies are implementing BI solutions in-house or in the cloud. Some companies are selecting BI solutions just because of the brand name. Other companies are selecting BI solutions because they think they are getting something that will answer a specific question today. […]
Continue Reading...I read an article the other day written by Joe Curtis called “Firms ‘wasting money on data centres of lack of analytics’” Mr. Curtis was correct that firms are wasting money due to the lack of analytics but not just on data centers. Firms are wasting money on resources, software, hardware, and much more due […]
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