Simple Example to remember Earned Value Formulas

What are the elements of a Business Case

1. Project Title and Description
 2. Project Manager Assigned and Authority Level
 3. Business Case
 4. Resources Preassigned
 5. Stakeholders
 6. Stakeholder Requirment as know
 7. Product description/Deliverables
 8. Assumptions
 9. Contraints
10. Measureable Project Objectives
11. Project Approval Requirements
12. High Level Project Risks
13. Project Sponosors

PMP - Procurment Management / Contract Types

Fixed Price:
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        FP = Fixed Price
    FPIF = Fixed Price Incentive Fee 
   FPAF = Fixed Price Award Fee Adjustment
 FPEPA = Fixed Price Economic Price Adjustment

Cost Plus:
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  CPF/CPPC = Cost Plus Fee/Cost Plus Percentage of Cost
           CPFF = Cost Plus Fixed Fee
            CPIF = Cost Plus Incentive Fee
           CPAF = Cost Plus Award Fee

Others:
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   T&M = Time & Material
       CR = Cost Reimbursable
       CC = Cost Contract




     

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

What is SWOT Analysis?

Seven Basic Tools of Quality

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  Cause-and-effect/ fishbone/ishikawa diagram
 
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  Check sheet
 
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  Control chart
 
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  Histogram
 
• 

  Pareto chart
 
• 

  Scatter diagram
 
• 

  Flow chart
 
• 

  Run chart
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Software Development for Medical Devices

Until recently, safety regulations for medical device software, at least formally, were not exceptionally rigorous across the board. In addition, software was not formally classified as a medical product by the Medical Devices Directive. This has now changed. A new regime is in force governing all medical device software development for all classes of device.

Very good article on software development of medical devices click here to read.

Data Mining Algorithms

Choosing the Right Algorithm

Choosing the best algorithm to use for a specific analytical task can be a challenge. While you can use different algorithms to perform the same business task, each algorithm produces a different result, and some algorithms can produce more than one type of result. For example, you can use the Microsoft Decision Trees algorithm not only for prediction, but also as a way to reduce the number of columns in a dataset, because the decision tree can identify columns that do not affect the final mining model.

Choosing an Algorithm by Type

Analysis Services includes the following algorithm types:

• Classification algorithms predict one or more discrete variables, based on the other attributes in the dataset.
• Regression algorithms predict one or more continuous variables, such as profit or loss, based on other attributes in the dataset.
• Segmentation algorithms divide data into groups, or clusters, of items that have similar properties.
• Association algorithms find correlations between different attributes in a dataset. The most common application of this kind of algorithm is for creating association rules, which can be used in a market basket analysis.
• Sequence analysis algorithms summarize frequent sequences or episodes in data, such as a Web path flow.

Types of Software Testing

What kinds of software testings you have been doing?

1. Performance Testing 
2. Security Testing 
3. Exploratory Testing 
4. Benefits Realization Testing
5.  Mutation Testing
6.  Sanity testing
7.  Build Acceptance Tests 
8.  Smoke Tests 
9.  Bug Regression Testing 
10.  Database Testing
11.  Functional Testing (or) Business functional testing
12. User Interface Testing (or) structural testing 
13. Volume Testing
14. Stress Testing 
15. Load Testing 
16. Installation Testing 
17. Configuration Testing
18. Compatibility Testing 
19. Documentation Testing
20. Recovery/Error Testing
21. Comparison Testing
22. Acceptance Testing
23. Alpha Testing
24. Beta Testing
25. Regression Testing
26. Incremental Integration Testing
27. Usability Testing
28. Integration Testing
29. System Testing
30. Parallel/Audit Testing
31. Blackbox Testing
32. Whitebox Testing
33. Stress Testing
34. Alpha Testing
35. Beta Testing

What is Your Leadership Style?

• Autocratic leadership?

• Bureaucratic leadership?

• Charismatic leadership?

• Democratic leadership or participative leadership?

Create your own simple node.js server, in few steps!

1. Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

• Download node.js (http://nodejs.org/)

• Install it on your machine.

• Create a file for example server.js
• Write following code in it.

• 
  
  
  
  

• Save the file.

• Go to command prompt and type following command 
  
• 
  

• You will get message "My Server Started".

• Go to browser and type following URL 
  

•  You will get message "Welcome to My Server!"

A Quick Look at Amazon's AWS Services

In 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began offering IT infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now commonly known as cloud computing. One of the key benefits of cloud computingis the opportunity to replace up-front capital infrastructure expenses with low variable costs that scale with your business. With the Cloud, businesses no longer need to plan for and procure servers and other IT infrastructure weeks or months in advance. Instead, they can instantly spin up hundreds or thousands of servers in minutes and deliver results faster.

Today, Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. With data center locations in the U.S., Europe, Brazil, Singapore, Japan, and Australia, customers across all industries are taking advantage of the 

Services being provided by Azure:-

Compute & Networking:

•  Direct Connect
  AWS Direct Connect lets you establish a dedicated network connection from your network to AWS.
•  VPC
  Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) lets you launch AWS resources in a private, isolated cloud.

•  EC2
  Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud.
•  WorkSpaces
  Amazon WorkSpaces is a fully managed desktop computing service in the cloud.

Storage & Content Delivery:

• CloudFront
  Amazon CloudFront provides a way to distribute content to end users with low latency and high data transfer speeds.
•  Storage Gateway
  AWS Storage Gateway securely integrates on-premises IT environments with cloud storage for backup and disaster recovery.

•  Glacier
  Amazon Glacier is a low-cost storage service that provides secure and durable storage for data archiving and backup.

Database:

•  DynamoDB
  Amazon DynamoDB is a scalable NoSQL data store that manages distributed replicas of your data for high availability.
•  Redshift
  Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service that lets you efficiently analyze all your data using your existing business intelligence tools.

•  ElastiCache
  Amazon ElastiCache improves application performance by allowing you to retrieve information from an in-memory caching system.

Analytics:

• Data Pipeline
  AWS Data Pipeline is a lightweight orchestration service for periodic, data-driven workflows.

•  Elastic MapReduce
  Amazon Elastic MapReduce lets you perform big data tasks such as web indexing, data mining, and log file analysis.

• CloudFormation
  AWS CloudFormation lets you create and update a collection of related AWS resources in a predictable fashion.
•  Elastic Beanstalk
  AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an application container for deploying and managing applications.

•  CloudTrail
  AWS CloudTrail provides increased visibility into user activity by recording API calls made on your account.
•  IAM
  AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) lets you securely control access to AWS services and resources.

App Services:

• AppStream
  Amazon AppStream lets you stream resource intensive applications and games from the cloud to multiple end-user devices.
•  SES
  Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a bulk and transactional email-sending service.
•  SWF
  Amazon Simple Workflow (SWF) coordinates all of the processing steps within an application.

•  CloudSearch
  AWS CloudSearch is a fully managed search service for websites and apps.
•  SNS
  Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) lets you publish messages to subscribers or other applications.

•  Elastic Transcoder
  Amazon Elastic Transcoder lets you convert your media files in the cloud easily, at low cost, and at scale.
•  SQS
  Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) offers a reliable, highly scalable, hosted queue for storing messages.

A Quick look at Microsoft Azure Services

Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. You can build applications using any language, tool or framework. And you can integrate your public cloud applications with your existing IT environment.

Services being provided by Azure:

Compute

• Virtual Machines
• Cloud Services
• Web Sites
• Mobile Services

Data Services

• Storage
• SQL Database
• HDInsight
• Cache
• Backup
• Site Recovery

App Services

• Media Services
• Service Bus
• Push Notifications
• Scheduler
• BizTalk Services
• Active Directory
• Multi-Factor Authentication
• Automation
• CDN
• API Management
• Azure RemoteApp

Network Services

• ExpressRoute
• Virtual Network
• Traffic Manager

Skills An Ideal Project Manager Should have!