quarta-feira, 3 de maio de 2017

And the Fresh leafy Links are... (information repositories and support tools)

The recent relevant (and mostly INTERNAL) links are indeed these ones:

- (Internal) Training resources should be shared internally; the task could be handed to HR (accumulating also with the responsibility of managing assiduity and training metrics collection - #hours of training per year, per worker). Example: https://goo.gl/Hq06W6
  • Sometimes you'll be able to access the training in editable formats, sometimes only the PDF. Sometimes you'll get the session video with audio (interesting to hear the Q&A sections or if some parts of the PPT are not self-explanatory). That's life ;)
  • A training policy shall exist (you can see it here) and a published training plan shall exist (you can see one example here).

- Project Management Information System (or systems) (PMIS):
  • Companies will use several different stacks (with the intent of managing projects and controlling them). 
  • Effort reporting is one important input for Project Controllers and for Project Managers (that will analyse EVM indicators). When possible, to save time, remember to use recurrence (PMIS/Wise, "More options | Recurrence" link). But "handle with care": Some will have no undo, no delete recurrence.
Documentation numbering: INTRA-DOC, Intradoc, IntraDoc, whatever and however they'll spell it.
It is a simple application with an important role: creating and centralizing the DOC ids that are being allocated throughout the company. The QMS Documentation Process (and several Quality Standards) requires this, and the process can be found here.

- Lessons learned (LL) database: It is a central repository of lessons learned (of type Strengths, Improvements and Weaknesses). Most of them are weaknesses. And the logic is to... learn from the past (and know for example how past projects have handled harsh situations).

It is also a QMS Process: QMS Lessons Learned Process which you can find here (and a guidebook explaining every field of a lesson learned as well as how to create them in the PMIS / WISE).

That's all. Please report any broken (INTERNAL) link.

(@2017-05-04, minor reformat and rephrases)