- Why failures occur and what you can do to minimize the impact and plan for success—including a case study on lessons learned.
- Developing, testing, fine-tuning, and executing deployment plans for success.
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Course Description: Do you want to improve the success of your projects? This class will discuss some lessons learned on making projects more successful. We will discuss things like: • Developing robust test plans, creating effective use and test cases, and implementing test scripts that make sense. -
Course Description: Does your organization struggle to understand your fully burdened TCO for the applications that enable your business? Do you use spreadsheets and disparate data sources to manually calculate TCO? This session explores the data sources needed to calculate the fully burdened TCO for applications. We will also cover marketplace tools that allow you to track spending, providing trends of applications broken down by run and development costs. -
Course Description: Are you ready to implement a continuous improvement practice within your PMO? This class is a working session to help build and sustain a continuous assessment initiative within your PMO, helping to manage goals and objectives from start-up through maturity. We will also discuss growth mapping to processes, tools, and strategic objectives. -
Course Description: Are your reports and portlets performing well? This class will walk you through specific SQL tuning tricks to make queries run faster, increase end user satisfaction, and smooth-out system performance. This is an easy way to promote efficient future development and make a huge, positive impact on user experience. -
Course Description: Does your IT organization struggle with IT budgeting and annual planning? Does your annual budget and planning process take months? This session explores leading approaches and purpose-built tools to shorten your budget cycle, align resources to business needs, and plan resources into future years while reducing errors and manual effort.

