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Before we get into the details of business case development , it is important to understand what is a business case, why do we prepare business cases, and how much time should we be spending on developing a business case. What is a Business Case? A business case serves as the center piece in integrating IT governance, portfolio management processes, and financial management processes. Business cases are an important document in helping leadership and management understand the business value of an investment or business opportunity. A business case is part sales and part marketing. But it is the “business” units’ opportunity to present an overwhelming and compelling justification for funding an investment to achieve organization or business unit mission, goals, and objectives. An effective business case is a multi-purpose document that generates the support, participation and leadership commitment required to transform an idea into reality. A business case identifies an idea, problem, o...

One of the basic concepts of PMBOK are the Project Management Process Groups and Project Management Knowledge Areas. For the PMP Certification exam, you need to know each of the process groups and knowledge areas and the mapping between the Project Management process groups and knowledge areas. So let's begin. There are five Project Management process groups - Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring and Control and Closing. There are nine Project Management Knowledge Areas Integration Management Scope Management Time Management Cost Management Quality Management Human Resource Management Communications Management Risk Management Procurement Management For the PMP Certification exam, you will need to know the each of the tasks under the individual process groups as well as which of these tasks map to which Project Management Knowledge area. Note that Integration Management is the only knowledge area which has tasks in all the process groups. Hence it is the most important chapte...

PHP QUIZ 1. What does PHP stand for? You answered: PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor  Correct Answer! 2. PHP server scripts are surrounded by delimiters, which? You answered: <?php…?>  Correct Answer! 3. How do you write "Hello World" in PHP You answered: echo "Hello World";  Correct Answer! 4. All variables in PHP start with which symbol? You answered: $  Correct Answer! 5. What is the correct way to end a PHP statement? You answered: ;  Correct Answer! 6. The PHP syntax is most similar to: You answered: Perl and C   Correct Answer! 7. How do you get information from a form that is submitted using the "get" method? You answered: $_GET[];  Correct Answer! 8. When using the POST method, variables are displayed in the URL: You answered: False  Correct Answer! 9. In PHP you can use both single quotes ( ' ' ) and double quotes ( " " ) for strings: You answered: True  Correct Answer! 10. Include files must have the file extension ".inc...

SQL QUIZ 1. What does SQL stand for? You answered: Structured Query Language  Correct Answer! 2. Which SQL statement is used to extract data from a database? You answered: SELECT  Correct Answer! 3. Which SQL statement is used to update data in a database? You answered: UPDATE  Correct Answer! 4. Which SQL statement is used to delete data from a database? You answered: DELETE  Correct Answer! 5. Which SQL statement is used to insert new data in a database? You answered: INSERT INTO  Correct Answer! 6. With SQL, how do you select a column named "FirstName" from a table named "Persons"? You answered: SELECT FirstName FROM Persons  Correct Answer! 7. With SQL, how do you select all the columns from a table named "Persons"? You answered: SELECT * FROM Persons  Correct Answer! 8. With SQL, how do you select all the records from a table named "Persons" where the value of the column "FirstName" is "Peter"? You answered: SELECT * FROM...

What is the Salience Model? Every project has many stakeholders. Each project stakeholder has varying expectations. Stakeholder prioritization can be a nightmare. Managing the communication needs of the various project stakeholders is a tricky. Let’s see how the Salience Model helps put project stakeholders into perspective.     Introduction     The Salience Model for project stakeholders was developed by Mitchell, Agle, and Wood to help managers identify and analyze project stakeholder needs. Unlike, the Power/Interest or Power/Influence grids, the Salience Model uses three parameters to categorize stakeholders: Power, Legitimacy and Urgency. Each parameter is defined as follows:         Power : Is the ability project stakeholders has to influence the outcome of an organization, deliverables, or a project         Legitimacy : Is the authority, level of involvement project stakeholders ha...

Looking to buy a new phone and going through the specs of what's available (Moto X, Nexus 5, LG G2, and Iphone 5s ofcourse) and what's to come (Samsung Galaxy S5). Being a Samsung afficionado for 4 years, I am super excited to read that Samsung may be launching the Samsung Galaxy S5 in March 2014. So I have decided to put my phone shopping on hold till March 2014. Here's what the rumour grapevine has about the specs and features of Samsung Galaxy S5 . Fingers crossed!  First and foremost, it is supposed to be the Diamond Phone . Yes, move on Iphone 5s Gold, here comes the diamond!  Samsung is finally ditching plastic for real metal. Well, it’s not just any metal, but diamond- plated metal.  According to another Korean IT news portal the R&D team at Samsung Electronics have been working on mechanisms to apply the diamond metal surface treatment technology to metal cases.  “Diamond material is coated onto the metal case surface of smartphones. If the metal case is ...