November 2022: How to select your professional certificates? Most people are pursuing professional certificates for continual professional development and career advancement. Taking in consideration the array of certificate offerings available from several providers, you need to define some criteria for prioritization and selection of the certificate in which you are going to invest your time and money. For example, you can assess a certificate based on criteria like: how much is it credible? how relevant is it to your career targets? how much is it valued in the profession you are working in? how long will it sustain and does it need continual renewal? how much is the cost and the expected return on your salary pay? how long time will it take from start until receiving the certificate? Accordingly, you will sum up the total score of each certificate you are considering and rank them based on higher score to assign priority.
October 2022: What is Cloud Architecture? Architecture refers to the decomposition of a system into its composite components and sub-systems, along with the relationships and organization of these components to form the overall system. This applies to many sorts of systems. In the context of cloud computing, architecture similarly refers to how the virtual components, as well as the physical onsite components, are organized together to form the overall information technology infrastructure of a certain business. Virtual components on the cloud can come from several cloud service providers, and are integrated together both on the cloud and on premises. Architecting the components of a cloud-based system would take in consideration several factors like availability in world wide delivery locations, capacity and workload versus costs, maintainability and added value services offered by the service provider, and integrability with other virtual and physical components.
September 2022: What is Business Analysis? Business Analysis is a technique used in requirement collection for planning purposes of a certain project or initiative. Business analysis team would define the business problem under consideration so that actions can be planned to move from the current state to a future desired state. A list of gap analysis findings and recommendations is created, and a roadmap is defined for subsequent execution steps. Business analysis professionals accomplish these tasks using tools like interviews, benchmarking, workshops, cost-benefit analysis, enterprise architecture, etc. Business analysis is performed as part of the project tasks, and other team members participate as adequate, so that commitments made during business analysis stage are realistic and don't contradict with other project constraints.
August 2022: How to define business portfolios? For management purposes, business projects and activities are classified into portfolios with components that are financially related and managed together. Criteria for classifying and defining portfolios can be simply by business line, so that all projects and activities belonging to a certain department are considered a standalone portfolio. Other criteria can be according to client, specifically for large account clients, so that projects and activities performed for a certain client, or customer sector, are managed as a separate portfolio. Another criteria can be merely financial investment portfolios. All types of portfolios eventually have financial implications, which is in fact the main reason behind defining portfolios. The financial investment made in all components included in a certain portfolio is calculated versus the expected return on this investment, and the value of the portfolio is determined accordingly.
July 2022: What is Process Engineering? Process Engineering is a discipline that encompasses process design, development, implementation, operation, and optimization. It's mostly concerned with manufacturing and production in industrial areas. Concepts and methodologies for process improvement like lean management and six sigma are among tools for process engineering. Process engineers would require knowledge in mathematics and statistics, computer science, physics, in addition preferably to the industrial field of application, e.g. chemical, petroleum, or manufacturing plants. A process engineer is expected to possess relevant knowledge and skills related to quality management, project management, supply chain management, etc. Process automation tools would make it easier to monitor processes throughout all phases of a production line and identify potential issues and improvement opportunities.
June 2022: Do you build maintainability in design? Maintainability is the concept of making a product or service easy to maintain through enabling future maintenance activities by planning to accommodate such activities during the design stage. A product or service designed with future maintenance in mind would reduce the effort, time, and cost of resolving any future issues or necessary upgrades of this item, eliminating the need to rework or rebuild. For example, a software system can be said to be maintainable if you can modify features in future releases without disturbance of active operations. A construction project can be designed with maintainability if internal components can be accessed and maintained through previously prepared channels like removable blocks. Similarly, a long-term design vision within any scope will take future usability issues and potential maintenance needs in consideration.
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