Do emotions have a role to play in dashboard design? 2010-09-13 Craig McQueen Business Intelligence (0) My background is both in engineering and usability. Functional design is very important to me. I’ve been educated to build things so that they work well for people. With the Business Intelligence practice I lead, dashboards and reports are an area I get involved in. Most times people are very satisf... [More]
Back to School – Technology Style 2010-09-08 David Wright (0) Like most kids in the civilized world north of the equator, my three daughters all went back to school this week. The eldest has just gone away to university for first year and she happens to have chosen my alma mater, so moving her in to residence this weekend brought back lots of memories of... [More]
Before undertaking a BI project, make sure you can answer this question 2010-09-07 Craig McQueen Business Intelligence (0) If you have new information how will you run your organization differently? If you are not ready to make changes in your company, having new information will not contribute new value. You must be ready to break old habits. You must be ready to make new decisions based on the facts. For instance, ... [More]
External User in Team Foundation Server (TFS) with Active Directory 2010-08-19 Kevin Walker Application Lifecycle Management (0) In our organization we develop software for clients. As part of that process we need to gather feedback from our clients when they encounter a bug. We use Team Foundation Server 2010 internally for all aspects of our software development practice including bug collection. We wanted... [More]
“What is Starbucks?” 2010-07-27 Craig McQueen (0) This summer we had a BBQ with some visitors from Denmark. I knew the person growing up. She moved to Denmark (which is her family origins) about twenty years ago and has rarely been back to Canada since. My sister showed up with a drink she purchased on the way over. When asked what is was she said,... [More]
Connecting to external data in SharePoint 2010 with CRUD Operations 2010-07-13 Ken Lai (0) There may have various data sources in one enterprise using by different applications, SharePoint as a portal it will have need to integrate business data from back-end server applications. This is BDC came out in SharePoint 2007. Connecting to external data in SharePoint with BDC in SharePoint 200... [More]
Does forecast status make sense? 2010-07-09 Craig McQueen Performance Management (0) Within the project management industry we often see people include “forecast status” as an element of project status reports along with current status and previous status. The expectation is Project Managers will include a status of what they think the status will be for the next reporting ... [More]
Is your organization inefficient with your project information? 2010-06-23 Craig McQueen Business Intelligence (0) From inception through to deployment how efficient is your organization with its information about projects? As a project goes through its lifecycle a multitude of information is collected, stored and reported on. Often this grows organically as different groups involved in a project collect and sto... [More]