PROJECT MANAGEMENT as a SERVICE

TechnoGuru Corporation offers Specialized Project Management Consultancy to our clients.  We believe that Agile Project Management Methodology under the Agile Framework works best for quick and iterative development of Business Intelligence Solutions.

TechnoGuru’s Project Managers are well trained in the principles of Agile Project Management and various Agile Methodologies such as Scrum, DSDM Atern, Lean, Kanban, Extreme Programming (XP), Feature Driven Development and Test Driven Development (FDD & TDD) and they are well equipped to manage multiple agile projects.

Our Agile Project Managers will also coach the client teams in the best practices of Agile Values and Principles as a part of engagement.

TechnoGuru Agile Project Managers will work with the clients to conduct the following Agile Ceremonies for each project.

Strategy & Release Planning

• Release Planning – (4 to 8 hours on an average).

Agile Ceremonies

• Iteration Planning – (1 hour planning for each week length of iteration)
• Daily Stand Up – (15 Minutes daily)
• Iteration Review – (60 Minutes)
• Retrospective Meeting – (60 Minutes)

Monitoring & Controlling – Removing impediments Daily

• Approximately about 2 hours daily  (Variable depending on severity of issues, risks, availability of stakeholders etc).

Total Time Per Project Iteration per week  approximately:  12.25 hours per week.

TechnoGuru Agile PM Benefits

• Flexibility – We provide our clients the benefit of selecting the number of projects they would like our Agile PM’s to manage.
• Cost Savings – Why pay for 40 hours a week when there is only 1 project to manage so our clients can select as an example a block of 15 hours / week dedicate to the single project iteration.
• Scalability – When further projects are sanctioned, our Agile PM’s can be assigned additional projects hours and in the case a project is rolled off then those hours will be taken off and the money saved for any future initiatives.
• Additional Benefits – Building relationships with stakeholders and understanding of clients environment eliminating the ramp up time costs and the time needed to build a repertioire and good will with the stakeholders for the PM as well IT Departments.

TechnoGuru Corporation offers specialized Business Intelligence Consultancy & Advisory Services to our clients.

No matter the size of business, there are a tonne of economical solutions that one can utilize to increase business, but which one to choose?

Our TechnoGuru BI Specialists can provide an assessment and recommendation  that will address these questions.

BI Solution Selection

• What are the cost of the solution vs benefits that our business can get?
• What is the quality of data that is available and will that be good for the BI solution we seek?
• Where to store the data based on the business we have ?  On-Premise of in Cloud?
• Should I get Tableau or PowerBI they are easy to work with , or should I go with a Cloud Solution or SAP BOBJ or Oracle OBIEE as we have these in-house, we also have IBM or HP solutions should we choose those?
• What are the security concerns around the data?  How much does that change if we use a cloud solution?
• I am a small business but I do want someone professional to help me set up a BI solution what would be the most economical solution for my small business?

BI Best Practices

• Source System Analysis – The study of data and the different systems its coming from and the quality of the data.
• Data Modeling – Close study to ensure that best practices have been used for Data Modeling.  Offer suggestions on where to improve.
• ETL – Study the Data Modeling ETL Logic and see if there is anything there that can be done to improve performance such as moving the logic to the Source System or in the Data Modeling process.
• In Premise Data Warehouse / Cloud Data Warehouse – Studying the Dimension Modeling such as star schema, join’s, time dimensions, real time data requirements, performance and offering suggestions on techniques to implement to improve performance and to ensure that Best Practices of EDW have been implemented.
• Dashboards / Reports / BI – Tableau, SAP BOBJ, Oracle OBIEE, Qlik, Domo, Excel, Reports.  Which tool to select based on my needs?  What about Security and overhead processing and the skills available in my organization?  What BI solution would be the best bang for my buck for my organization keeping in mind our BI Road Map.  Would an IT Tool work better as we have Enterprise level security concerns or as per our road map, we want to enable our uses to create their own Reports or Dashboards?

TechnoGuru Corporation is BI software tool agnostic.  We will provide the most objective recommendation of the Business Solution that would work best in your organization.

TechnoGuru Corporation offers Project Management Consulting Service to our clients.  Agile Project Management does not work in all cases and we need some good traditional Project Management that follow PMBoK philosophy.  We believe that all business small, medium or large, will benefit from good Project Management services.