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Healthy Projects or Pigs in Lipstick?
1. Healthy Projects or Pigs With Lipstick?
The Top 10 Questions Every Project Manager
Should Ask Their Metrics Dashboard
A webinar presented by:
Don Baxter
Distributive Management
www.distributive.com
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2. About The Webinar
You will learn during this webinar:
• How to use metrics dashboards to quickly and consistently
evaluate project health
• How DataDrill automates the delivery of accurate software
project metrics
• How supporting indicators and analysis help managers achieve a
greater level of insight
• How DataDrill provides objective monitoring and evidence of
compliance with standards and processes
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3. Webinar Overview
A few points about our GoToWebinar:
• Phones are muted.
• You can use the Question option in your tool bar to submit
questions. Answers will be provided as the webinar proceeds.
• You may also type questions into the Chat area – the
moderator will address these questions at the end of the
session.
• You can use the “Satisfaction indicators” to let us know if the
message is getting across.
• Maximize your computer screen to view the slides at full size.
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4. Webinar Outline
• Introduction to Distributive Management
• Purpose of Measurement
• Project Health
• Top 10 Key Questions
• Conclusion
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5. Who is Distributive Management?
Leaders in Measurement Innovation Since 1992
For more than 15 years, Distributive Management has been leading the
way . Utilizing the latest Web technologies, we give organizations
unsurpassed measurement capabilities that support the most recent
measurement standards and management techniques.
Our Mission
We will increase the competitiveness of your organization
by improving your insight into business performance.
Peter Baxter, President
Distributive Management
8. Experience in Measurement
Practical Knowledge
• Member of the ISO SC/7 Working Group which wrote ISO-15939,
Measurement Standard (which contributed the vocabulary and
activities/tasks to the CMMI)
• Part of INCOSE Measurement Working Group industry review team to provide
comments to SEI on draft M&A process
• Working group chair of INCOSE Measurement Working Group; IEEE Project
Editor and WG chair; PSM Transition Partner and Trainer; ISO Editor, Reviewer
and WG member; PMI MetSig member
Real World Experience
• Over 150 sites have achieved CMMI rating 3 or higher using DataDrill
• Currently 45 sites operating at level 5 using DataDrill as the central
measurement repository
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9. Purpose of Measurement
Manage Organizational
Projects Initiatives
Practice
Process
Quantitative
Maturity Goals
Management
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10. Healthy Projects
A healthy project delivers quality products and services to
their customers within budget and schedule
To make a project healthy, managers must:
• Create a credible estimate of what it will take to build the
required functionality
• Establish performance targets and monitor them regularly
• Manage risks and issues
Demo scenario: Healthy Projects or Pigs with Lipstick?
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11. Within
budget and
schedule?
Managing Projected
requirement cost to
changes? complete?
Measuring Understand
product project
quality? risks?
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12. Credible project
estimate?
Compliance
The size of the
with corporate
effort?
goals?
Communic- Issues to be
ation to stake- worked this
holders? week?
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13. The Solution …
EXPRESS automates the entire measurement process.
• Creates a central measurement
Process
repository
Definition
• Generate objective evidence for
management oversight and CMMI
compliance
• Automatically generate
EXPRESS
measurement documents
Measurement
System
• Demonstrate compliance with
policy, other standards/models
Dashboards
Data
and
Collection
• Quickly initiate new projects
Graphing
• Integrate and collect critical metric
data
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14. EXPRESS Automates Your Measurement Plan
Process
Definition
EXPRESS
Measurement
System
Dashboards
• Library captures management
Data
and
Collection
best practices
Graphing
• Replaces paper documentation
• Provides guidance & knowledge
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15. EXPRESS Automates Your Measurement Plan
Process
Definition
EXPRESS
Measurement
System
• Collector gathers required data
Dashboards
Data
and
• Integrates with Library to extract data
Collection
Graphing
required by management policy
• Generates scripts automatically – no
need to develop / maintain integrations
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16. EXPRESS Automates Your Measurement Plan
Process
Definition
EXPRESS
Measurement
System
• Web-based information delivery
Data
Dashboard
• Dashboards, graphs and reports
and Graphing Collection
• Saves managers time with an
integrated repository
• Manage by exception
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17. DataDrill EXPRESS Components
EXPRESS Server
Managers
EXPRESS Library Management
Activities
EXPRESS Portal
Measurement
Web Data
Repository
Services Collection
Administrators EXPRESS Collectors
Application General
SQL
Interfaces Interfaces
Interfaces
Microsoft CSV
Executives Oracle
HP Excel
SQL Server
IBM/Rational XML
EXPRESS Web Client ODBC
IBM/Telelogic Access
license types
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18. Managing with DataDrill EXPRESS
Project and Organizational Management
Management Reporting/Dashboards
Built-In Best Practices
Compliance Project Planning
EXPRESS provides managers with an integrated solution for defining and
applying best practices, planning and estimating their projects, reviewing
collected data then guiding projects to completion.
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19. Summary
With DataDrill EXPRESS:
• automate labor intensive and error prone all aspects of
quantitative management and measurement reporting.
• deploy built-in Library of best practices and data collection to
instantly start or accelerate your quality journey.
• bring value as the central measurement repository and through
the use of performance metrics, summaries and status alerts
• achieve a level of management insight with content-rich, action-
oriented displays and alerts
• integrate directly to your data sources without scripting or
reliance on IT
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20. For More Information
• Visit our web site
• Read a white paper and other resources
• View our product flash demos
• Check product data sheets
• Call one of our Success Representatives
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21. Thank You For Your Time
Distributive Management
109 Olde Greenwich Drive, Suite 102
Fredericksburg, Virginia 22408
540-891-8811 / 8885 fax
sales@distributive.com
http://www.distributive.com
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