Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Palm Springs Savant Rick Rockhill: "Corporate Speak" Translation Cheat Sheet

Palm Springs Savant Rick Rockhill: "Corporate Speak" Translation Cheat Sheet: "'Corporate Speak' Translation Cheat Sheet

For those of you who have ever worked in a corporate office or for a large company, here is a cheat sheet of common 'Corporate Speak'."

Friday, February 22, 2008

SAP Portal Developer Guide

SAP Library - Portal: "Portal Locate the document in its SAP Library structure
Purpose

The portal offers a single point of access to SAP and non-SAP information sources, enterprise applications, information repositories, databases and services in and outside your organization—all integrated into a single user experience. It provides you the tools to manage this knowledge, to analyze and interrelate it, and to share and collaborate on the basis of it."

Web Dynpro for ABAP

SAP Library - Web Dynpro for ABAP: "Web Dynpro for ABAP Locate the document in its SAP Library structure
Purpose

Web Dynpro ABAP is the SAP standard UI technology for developing Web applications in the ABAP environment. It consists of a runtime environment and a graphical development environment with special Web Dynpro tools that are integrated in the ABAP Workbench (SE80)."

Flavors of SAP Workflow

SAP Network Blogs: "When you hear the work workflow, do you think of design time/modeling activities, or do you think of runtime capabilities as well? Whatever you think of, we’ve got the tool that you can use to help you in the definition of your workflows. We will divide the tools into the following categories:
human to human, human to system, system to system, and modeling tools.

Human to Human and Human to System

* Galaxy New Information
* Business Workflow
* Guided Procedures
* Universal Worklist
* SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer
* Collaboration Tasks
* SAP NetWeaver Master Data Mangaement (MDM) Workflow

System to System

* Integration Process (ccBPM)

Modeling tools

* ARIS for SAP NetWeaver
* SAP Solution Manager"

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Extreme Programming - Hydrid/Unified Methodologies

Extreme Programming - Hydrid/Unified Methodologies: "Other authors have tried to reconcile XP with the older methods in order to form a unified methodology. Some of these XP sought to replace, such as the waterfall method; example: Project Lifecycles: Waterfall, Rapid Application Development, and All That.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. tried combining XP with the computer programming methodologies of Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), and Six Sigma. They found that the three systems reinforced each other well, leading to better development, and did not mutually contradict, see Extreme Programming (XP) Six Sigma CMMI."