Monday, August 6, 2012

Olympic Rings Infography

Excellent concept of information graph with the Olympics Rings has been created in the http://gustavo-sousa.tumblr.com/  where (Pacific Ocean : Blue, Europe: Black, America: Red, Africa : Yellow and Asia : Green)













Thursday, August 2, 2012

4PM - App Management

Production Application Management is going to be part of a production support manager day-to-day work, managing live application in a real-time provides high value add to the support manager. Introducing specific feature in the 4PM solution is very much easy, dynamic portlets provides option to render and extract the required details and displays in the user dashboard.

App Management has two phases 1) Agents 2) GUI Display in the 4PM with following architecture. 



Agent controllers: Runs in the server where the production application will be running and maintains set of Agents and each agent will have set of rules to extract the required details. Final rule in the agent is to store the analyzed and processed output in the desired format in the OUT directory. Python’s Simple HTTP Server will be used to GET the response files.  Simple HTTP Server reduces the server CPU usage.

4PM: Has two separate pages to manage the production application 1) declare the application agents and its format, protocol, sync frequency, etc. 2) manage the application agents (stop/start/schedule). 4PM dynamically creates datasbase in the back end for the each agents and schedule the job to get the real-time data from the production environment. Dynamic Portlets just renders the values in the desired format.

Declare the application agents



Manage the application agents


Wednesday, August 1, 2012

4PM - T&M Project Management

One of the complex area in the project management is handling the Time and Material efforts and billing for the resource. Lot of projects and different efforts spent on different project always leads to misleading in the project status report.

New feature has been introduced in the 4PM project to handle the T&M efforts for a project. It is simply captures the Estimated T&M efforts in the project properties and TimeAndMaterial page allows me reduce the efforts on the fly. Then my dynamic portlet will render the T&M efforts utilization in graph or grid. It will be easy for my presentations and status sharing.



4PM site is growing as bigger and taking lot of new ideas into the Project Intelligence site. There are lot of planned items to reduce the managers day-to-day activities which peoplesoft wont solve. Idea Management, App Management, etc.in the list.