Friday, January 22, 2010

Vignette's Content Management Tool

Vignette's (now Open Text) Content Management Solution: http://www.vignette.com/dafiles/vcm8-demo/

This product looks impressive.

NEDSTAT, a Web Tracking Product

NEDSTAT, a product from NEDSTAT that performs online user experience tracking (similar to Omniture's Site Catalyst 13): http://www.nedstat.com/web-analytics-segmentation?open&play_segmentation=1

SiteCatalyst 13: Site Tracker

Omniture's (An Adobe company) 'SiteCatalyst 13' tool for tracking a website's user experience and generate reports out of it: http://www.omniture.com/en/products/online_analytics/sitecatalyst

A video demo of the product: http://www.omniture.com/en/product_tours/sitecatalyst13?fc=true&v_id=522482

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Six Sigma

What is Six Sigma? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Sigma

Swimlane Diagrams or Cross-Functional Diagrams

Swimlane Diagrams or Cross-Functional Diagrams are described in the below link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swim_lane

How to draw? Components of Swimlane: https://www.niatx.net/PDF/PIToolbox/swimlane.pdf

Joint Application Development (JAD) Session

What is Joint Application Development (JAD)? http://www.businessanalystfaq.com/what-is-jad-session.htm

How to setup a JAD session? http://www.ehow.com/how_2068255_set-up-jad-session.html

SDLC Models

Software Development LifeCycle (SDLC) models:
  1. Waterfall Model
  2. V-Model
  3. Prototyping Model
  4. RAD Model - Rapid Application Development
  5. Incremental SDLC Model
  6. Spiral Model
  7. Agile Model
- Extreme Programming (XP)
- Feature Driven Design (FDD)
- Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM)

Explanation on the above shall be found in the below three links:
http://www.onestoptesting.com/sdlc-models/
http://www.scribd.com/doc/5195326/PPT-on-SDLC-Models
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development

UML, BPM Certifications

Object Management Group's (OMG) BPM Certification in Business and Technical side: http://www.omg.org/oceb/coveragemap-links.htm

OMG's UML Certification: http://www.omg.org/uml-certification/

IBM's Business Process Analyst Certification (BPM):
http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/tests/ovr372.shtml