Canadian Productivity – Oxymoron? 2010-06-11 David Wright (0) Just recently I read a book called “Fearful Symmetry – The Fall and Rise of Canada’s Founding Values” by Brian Lee Crowley. http://www.brianleecrowley.com/ The book is very interesting for those of us who are concerned with Canada’s place in the world and what our country wil... [More]
The time is right for Project Portfolio Management (PPM) 2010-05-11 David Wright PPM (0) Bad economic news is all around us and will affect most organizations with reductions in revenues, expense and staff cuts and greater scrutiny of all expenditures. For many it is easy to conclude that now is not the time to be investing in project management tools and processes. In fact, the opposit... [More]
Can your organization handle the truth? 2010-04-23 Craig McQueen Business Intelligence (0) Do you need help getting your organization to stick to the facts? Is there lots of data in your organization but hesitation to share it? Be utilizing some Business Intelligence (BI) best practices these problems can be tackled. The power of BI is combining information from various data sources to f... [More]
Visual Studio 2010 Launch Event 2010-04-19 David Wright (0) Last Monday Agora hosted a “booth” at the Toronto event for Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2010 Launch Event. "Booth” is in quotes because this was not the typical trade-show kind of booth. The event was set up as a celebration of software developers and all the wonderful things that t... [More]
You have Microsoft SQL Server – Are you getting the most for your money? 2010-04-19 Craig McQueen Business Intelligence (0) Almost all companies have Microsoft SQL Server somewhere in their organization. It may have arrived there as part of a vendor application, Microsoft SharePoint deployment or custom web application. SQL Server does much more than just store data – at no additional cost! Other database tools often hav... [More]
Be presentable to your users 2010-04-07 Craig McQueen Business Intelligence (0) Business Intelligence solutions can loosely be divided into two components: getting the data right (by cleaning it and storing in a Data Mart) and presenting the data to the user (through dashboards and reports). Preparing the data requires lots of time and effort and time to ensure the data is clea... [More]
TFS 2010 Hierarchical Queries 2010-03-22 Kevin Walker Application Lifecycle Management (0) One of the great new features in Team Foundation Server 2010 is hierarchical queries. A hierarchical query allows you to return multiples sets of related data in one query. The screen shot below shows a typical hierarchical query. In this query I have selected “Work Items and Direct Lin... [More]
Team Foundation Server 2010 RC Install 2010-03-22 Kevin Walker Application Lifecycle Management (0) Can you install TFS 2010 RC over top of TFS 2010 Beta 2? No, setup detects that the Beta 2 is installed and aborts the install. However, you still get the RC version installed without too much effort. In short, you have to: Backup your database Uninstall the Beta 2 version Instal... [More]