Q: How would my business use mobility?
A: It usually all starts with messaging; the ability to send and receive emails whilst on the move. With comprehensive operating systems such as windows mobile, however, you have access to word processing and spreadsheets and proprietary business forms and applications.
Typical scenarios for mobility include:
- Sales Force Automation - the ability to close sales and take orders on the spot including cross checking stock availability, pricing and discounting
- Field Force Automation - technician dispatch, job site information, work instruction and checklists, OH&S compliance, time recording, signature capture and payment
- Decision Support - risk analysis, real time status, scorecarding
- Workflow - routing and escalation of critical business processes and events
- Messaging
- Location Based Services - asset location and identification, tracking, security, safety
Q: What is a strong password?
A: A strong password is a password that is difficult to guess and therefore is more effective in protecting your system.
A strong password normally follows rules such as:
- Minimum length of 15 characters
- Mandatory mix of capitalsed, uncapitalised, numeric and special characters
- Avoiding use of names, company name, and common words
- Avoiding similarity to the last 5 passwords used
An example strong password would be something like 4^x!0TW251d9J96
A strong password is not strong if it is written down or shared, so keep it secret.
If you struggle to remember passwords try using a phrase rather than a word, for example "Fish&ch!p5"
Q: What is Information Architecture?
A: Information Architecture is the way you categorise and structure your information so that it is able to be found and used by the people that need it.
Your architecture will be made up of a structure or hierarchy and a taxonomy which is the "dictonary" you use to categorise your information.
The easiest way to get started when defining your information architecture is with a card sorting process involving people from various different roles in your organisation.
There are some useful resources below to help you
http://www.steptwo.com.au/papers/cardsorting/index.html
http://sixrevisions.com/usabilityaccessibility/information-architecture-101-techniques-and-best-practices/
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262873.aspx
Q: What is a Process Map?
A: A process map is a diagram that shows how a process is broken down into interactions, activities and work products.
We have a special way of representing this which is a simplification of
swim lane diagrams.
We have mapped processes for some of Australia's most rapidly growing comapnies to then help them apply improvements to the way they work in order to continue to scale.
Q: What is a User Story?
A:
User stories are very slim and high-level requirements artifacts.
User stories follow a structured format as below and an appropriate test of brevity is that they are typically written on post-it notes or postcards.
The story is role based, reflects one action that the role wishes to perform, as well as the outcome that will result from that action. For example:
As a Financial Controller
I want to print a Profit and Loss statement
So that I can review it in the board meeting
The back of the card then contains acceptance criteria in the format of conditions an results such as
When I specify a date range the report only contains amounts posted within that range
When I specify a currency the report uses the conversion rate for the period to convert amounts into that currency
Q: What are non-functional requirements?
A:
Non-functional requirements are those project requirements that do not directly address a client business or application need. Instead, they may address:
- A property the end product must possess
- The standards by which it must be created
- The supporting structure that makes it possible
- The environment in which it must exist
An index of non-functional requirement categories is listed here
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Accessibility
Alerts
Availability
Backup (& Restore)
Business Continuity
Capacity
Compatibility
Compliance
Concurrency
Configuration
Data Integrity
Diagnostics
Documentation
Entitlements (User Security)
Escalation Paths
Event Handling
Failover
Fallback
Fault Tolerance
Functionality
Housekeeping & Archive
Integration
Interoperability
Journaling
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Latency
Logging
Monitoring
Media
Networking
Operability
Patch Levels
Performance
Privacy
QOS
Recoverability
Response Time
Scalability
Scheduling
Security
Service Levels
Statistics
Synchronicity
Testability
Throughput
Upgradeability
Usability
Virtualisation
Volumetrics
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