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Written by John McGrann
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Thursday, 03 December 2009 00:00 |
 Recently I blogged about how people drive Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems to success. The tools that leverage superior people performance in turn can enhance the business performance of ERP systems in an organisation. The social phenomenon known as social media marketing can play an important part in ERP performance in the future. Let’s see it from the customer / user perspective.
The social media marketing ‘Big 4’ of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and You Tube together with blogs, websites and intranet pages offer the following possible benefits for ERP customers / users:
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Written by Kevin Thompson
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Monday, 30 November 2009 00:00 |
 Experienced project managers, trained in the formal practice of project management, can be forgiven for feeling that they have entered the Twilight Zone on first encountering Scrum. While Scrum is a “process framework,” optimized for managing software projects, almost nothing about it seems familiar
to someone with a PMP certification. And yet, if Scrum is about project management, its concepts should make sense to “classic” project managers.
How can we resolve this paradox?
Scrum Revealed
The apparent discrepancy between Scrum concepts and standard project management concepts is due partly to unfamiliar terminology, and partly to unfamiliar tradeoffs. Let’s look first at the terminology.
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Written by Jonathan Gross
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Thursday, 19 November 2009 00:00 |
The following article is the second in a series of four articles aimed at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises seeking a rapid deployment of Enterprise Resource Planning systems and at the consultancies that may be providing those firms with assistance. The articles are based on Pemeco’s proprietary and systematic “Milestone Deliverables” and “Milestone Deliverables: Rapid Implementation” ERP methodologies. The first article discussed the system acquisition process.
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Written by Jaisundar
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Monday, 16 November 2009 00:00 |
 Tom Felt much like Jonathon Livingston Seagull.
He was surrounded by peers wearing black hats, and they all smiled the same way, nodded the same way, shook hands the same way and made deals the same way. They ran on the same fuel and acted on the same thoughts.
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Written by Colin Armitage
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Friday, 06 November 2009 00:00 |
 For the past 15-plus years, organizations have turned to test automation as a way to improve efficiency in the Software Development Life Cycle. Yet despite heavy investment, software testing is still often the bottleneck in the delivery cycle. In a recent survey of CIOs, Original Software found that only 6% were totally happy with their automation. The scary thing is that this is tolerated - It’s the norm!
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Written by Steven Bonacorsi
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Monday, 02 November 2009 00:00 |
 The activity network diagram is a method of displaying the timelines of all the various subtasks that are involved in any project. By doing this, the total task duration and the earliest and latest start and finish times for each task are also calculated and displayed.
In addition to showing which subtasks are critical to on-time task completion, the activity network diagram can help determine where extra effort to speed a subtask will have the greatest payoff to overall speed.
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Written by Kevin Thompson
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Thursday, 29 October 2009 00:00 |
Introduction
Scrum is a lightweight agile process framework used primarily for managing software development. This article reviews the three basic artifacts of Scrum: The Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, and Burndown Chart.
The Story
We can’t discuss the three official artifacts without reference to another Scrum concept: the Story, or User Story. The Story is the basic unit of requirements specifications for Scrum, and typically consists of a title and a brief, usually narrative, description of the desired capability. For example, a Story might resemble the following:
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