2012年11月19日星期一

Q102

I am going to subscribe the enterprise information management special interest group because I want to focus my career on Enterprise Resource Planning. Also, it is my major so I am into this topic. Beside, my relevant working experience belongs to this field. In terms of contributing to my career planning, it is a good opportunity to expand my limited knowledge. Since this special group often offer a wide range of interesting topic and most-advanced or best practice advice. In addition, it is a good network development opportunity. As we all known, numerous jobs are hidden in this hidden market or through networking. Therefore, these ACS events not only inspire us with advanced knowledge, it also gives us a good opportunity to expand our network in our specific industry. The second activities that I think it is useful is to undertake Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): SQL Server 2008, Database Development. As I am into business intelligence, I decide to go for this certificate after I research on my dream job requirement. This certificate program equips me with database knowledge. Also, I can review my knowledge since database lays a foundation on business intelligence system.

Many organisations provide

I tend to believe that providing a professional mentoring service to the new graduate or employees contribute to their career in ICT. This is partly due to the fact that new graduate or employees confuse about their first job or first career in their new company. Also, new graduate may not have a clear perspective about their career until they get into the company or work in a specific area. Especially, ICT has a broad range of skills nowadays. Therefore, offering a mentoring program helps individual get themselves familiar with the company they work with. Besides, they can learn their skills through their mentors and learn their career development by talking with their mentors. Take myself for example, when I studied at Victoria University, the career centre offered an IBM mentoring program which helped us to understand our career better and fixed our resume based on their professional experience. I found this program very useful because IBM is a good ICT company. It is worth to learn from talent or your mentors by going through their career experience or technical. In terms of technical development, I also think mentors play a key role in helping new graduates out from the project, because they may not have adequate technical experience in commercial environment.

2012年11月16日星期五

journal

This week aims to develop my professional career. To be a ICT professional, I not only have develop my technique skill, but also I have to be work ethically and apply my knowledge in a professional way. To begin with, I decide to work in business intelligence field in my future. I collect all the skills and category it by utilizing the SFIA framework and by researching advertisements related to this field. I identified my current skills in these following fields: business analysis, data analysis, business modeling, database/repository design, and programming and software development. I considered myself in SIFA level 3 as the tutor indicated. This means I have to acquire more working experience and more knowledge to develop my skills. Even I have develop my technical skills, I must be aware of my generic skills, which is also considered as an important component in the work place. In terms of generic skills, I have to emphasize these by my current working experience. If a generic skill I claimed without working experience, it would be meaningless in my job application. Therefore, I will conclude that my career path is to develop all these technical skills that I matched in SFIA framework. In addition, I have to be aware that I have to develop my generic skills when I upgrade my technical skills.

2012年11月14日星期三

Data-centric Testing

Enterprise Information Management SIG: Data-centric Testing - Why is it different? 16/10/2012 Presenters: Richard Ng This event topic was about Data-centric Testing. Data-centric Testing is based on data warehouse or business intelligence system. Unlike transaction system, its test scenario is totally different. To begin with, Richard stated the testing myths and realities. It can not be ensured that all the faulty of the system are corrected by the testing. Testing is divided into functional test, usability test, performance test, stress test, recovery test, security test, regress test. Different test scenarios should be used in specific purpose. Take functional system for example, it is clear that testing is to ensure the transaction goes fluently in a designed user case. Then he moved to the key challenges in the data centric testing. Compared with transaction, data centric testing involved a large amount of entities and relationships. Besides, it was not sequential and was difficult to define a use case for it. This is partly due to the fact that data centric testing involves numerous data in present layer. Also, it is subject oriented. This means the tester should have enough about the enterprise data and understand about the content in the report or decision support system. Finally, he gave us a solution in regard to this problem. Specific skills are necessary in carry out success testing, which includes data model aware, DW-BI architecture knowledge and enterprise data or at least data subject area understanding. In addition, a data scenario should be a good approach in testing. In terms of testing the front-end, functional testing must necessarily involve the end users since they can more easily detect abnormality in data. Overall, I think this presentation is very inspiring in data centric testing. I will use this knowledge in my recent business intelligence project.

2012年11月13日星期二

Question 2:

My neighbour was an old lady whose son already migrated to foreign country. She had not seen her sons and family for a long time. Her son set up the internet access for her, but she had difficult in operating computers. As her neighbour, I did her a favour to help her set up the online video chatting account and fast lunch icon for her and taught her for a long time. Fortunately, she could managed her won way to deal with the online chatting system. The computer had totally change her life in communicating with her relative who live far away from her. She was so happy to had such advanced technology to keep in touch with her sons. Therefore, I think ICT technology has changed the way we communicate and reduce the cost for communicating. Another example that can enable me to work as a professional is my community working experience. I used to work as a community visitor for a nursing home. One day when I went there for my visit, they had to set up a new computer for the aged people entertainment purpose. However, they stuck in setting up the computer due to network problem. They knew I was major in information technology. Therefore, they ask me for help, although I finally set up the computer for them, but I found that I was lack of skills to help other people. I could even say I am major in ICT. Based on these experience, I think I have to strive to attain my professional in ICT industry. To be a professional, I have to get expertise skills as well as business skills.

the difference between your profession and your career

In my opinion, I agree with the view that profession is as Macquarie Dictionary defined:"following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain". To be a professional, individuals should acquire knowledge and strive to attain expertise in their ICT field. This is partly ICT have so many skills, which I think it is difficult to manage many fields. Therefore, focusing on a subject area is needed for a ICT professional. In addition, ICT have to take our responsibility to the society and the environment. For instance, the green IT is a good example to illustrate this point. Also, I think Bill Gates is a good example for us to follow. He lead the company to success and benefited numerous people using the window interface. After his professional ICT development for the Microsoft, he is rewarding to society or the whole world by founding a fund for the charity. Therefore, I consider him as a good example for professional. He not only works as a professional and apply his knowledge, but also he take his responsibility to reward the whole community. In contrast, career path is a way you want to achieve for higher salary or more sophisticated skills. You may treat it as a living tool rather than profession. This means a career path may not exert profound influence on the society or apply knowledge. I think the career path is focus on our own but profession is to influence others and benefit the society.

2012年11月12日星期一

SFIA

This week we focus on adjusting my CV using the SFIA framework. I find the framework is very clear for use to develop skills in the ICT. Firstly, I can identify my skills in the category and subcategory. Matching the category description with my current experience is useful to figure out my current career path and my level under such framework. Then, I can compare my current skills with the level description in those specific skills. The difference demonstrates the gap between my current skill set level and the professional level. To move to next high level, I have to minimize the gaps or foster the skills required in the next high level. This means I know my skill weakness and know the goal in achieving higher level professional in ICT. Finally, I have to cultivate my soft skills (the generic skills, my personal skills or my work skills) as well. Soft skills are also considered an important part in a ICT professional, as a fresh graduate, I think I have to keep in mind that I have to develop all these skills to the same level until I move to the next high level. In terms of applying a job, using the SFIA framework is also very practical. I can utilize all the technical terms that used in the SFIA framework to make my CV looks more professional. In addition, when I look at the job advertisement, I can identify the skills required in the job description and match it with the SFIA framework. Overall, I think the SFIA not only facilitates in job applications, but also it can help me to figure out my career path in ICT.

2012年10月26日星期五

11

This week, we are focus on risk management and the response to the risks. According to the project plan I currently involved, there are variety risks in the project, such as the allocation fund for the project. In terms of ICT risk, if we can not define the metadata correctly, it will lead to project fail from the beginning. I think the fundamental parts for a Business Intelligence system are the metadata and how to capture the business metadata or the business requirement before we actually implement the system. In current stage, risks also be introduce instantly, for instance, in the definition of metadata phase, we have to ensure that we capture the business requirement and develop the correct metadata entity in the metadata dictionary. This is the only way that adds business value to the company. To minimize the risks, we have to develop a risk strategy to avoid this change or reduce the risk impact ot

2012年10月23日星期二

2012年10月15日星期一

data dictionary

I also see quite a dichotomy between starting a data dictionary as an aid to building a (greenfields) data source, and documenting an already-existing system A data dictionary is, at its most simple, a mapping of data elements your organization stores, where it stores them, and what each element means. While it’s simple to describe, it’s a bit more complicated and time-consuming to implement. Another reason for a data dictionary is that you need to determine authoritative sources for your data elements when you need systems to interact. Defining Data Elements for the Data Dictionary

2012年10月7日星期日

This week my tasks are to create several report on Monash college's admission. Monash College has several business units: Monash college diploma course, Monash college foundation year, professional year and Monash college language learning center. I felt my task was extremely difficult for me since I am not familiar with the business process and I did not know where the data came from. As a business analyst, the most important is to understanding business and how to utilize the ICT to boost the efficiency of the business and reduce the cost. In my internship, my job is designed to generate the report, which business require. Understanding the business requirement is as important as using the ICT tools. In my case, it is the Qlikview that develop the reports. Also, maintaining our professionalism is a critical part in my role. I submitted my job of a report to my manager. To my surprised, he checked every field in my report. In addition, he compared my work with his previous work, as some records in the report is similar. In particular, he compared one field that was different in the report and investigated the result that leaded to this difference. This action very inspired me on how to work as a professional to ensure the report correct.

2012年10月4日星期四

In my internship, my duty is to develop the reports that required by other departments. Because it was my first week of my internship, I was not familiar with the database structure and the business process, which made me very difficult to develop the report. In addition, my manager was busy with his tasks. he did not have enough time to explain the report field and the business logic for me. This very challenged me partly because that I was used to be assigned tasks by the manager. So, I looked into the fields in the database table and analysis the information based on my limited knowledge about the business and the report. I finished the reports and submitted my job to my manager. To my surprised, my manager analysis every field in my report and checked it with his own knowledge. Suddenly, he found some mistakes in my report and asked me the reason. I explained to his about my situation and the difficulties I had encountered. He introduced me in a great detail about the business process; he said that as an ICT professional in our organization, we had to provide a correct report for the business to add the business value to the organization. Indeed, if I can not provide the correct report, how can the business make a decision base on the faulty report? Even when I had a large amount of difficulties, I should try to deal with it in my great effort.

2012年10月1日星期一

ACS week3

ACS week 3 帐户 施乐园 This week is the first week of my internship. In terms of working experience, I used to work in China for two years as a Helpdesk analyst, but I have not had any Australian ICT industry so far. So I felt a little nervous and excited about this opportunity that professional year offered me. First day was all about the Administration tasks. In the second days of the week, I discussed my tasks and my internship expectation. Fortunately, I had a school assignment which is similar to this job using SAP. But the system structure and the data information are different from my internship. This is partly because that data is more complex in the real business environment and the business requirement is always fuzzy. In addition, the business intelligence tool is different, which also challenge me since I have to learn to utilize new software in a short time. Compared with the assignment I used to complete in university, the structure is similar, so it gives me a basic understand about this job. The real different in this job I think is to understand the business process and how to gather information from the database, most importantly; extracting data from database is a critical part in this job. Overall, I will focus on the business intelligence interface first. Question 3 You are faced with a situation you feel may be unethical. How would you set about analysing the situation? Think about the ethical analysis process, not the potential ethical dilemma. What questions do you need to ask? What facts do you need to consider? What, or who – might help you in your analysis? Use the Ethical Framework provided by the 3-step method of the Center for Ethics and Business Write 150-250 words, to answer this question. If you wish, choose a specific example of an unethical situation; either fictional, or that you have actually experienced. Discuss with your classmates the different approaches you each have taken and try to explain why there are differences. I would like to illustrate this example by using a specific situation that I encounter before. A friend of my is a IT enthusiast, whose interest is in internet working, he was introduced to use a hacker software. He was on a business trip in Melbourne, his broadband was near the limit. So maybe he just wanted to take some advantage or show off his technique or skills. He hacked in the network that nearby, so he can use the network for free. I think I would still use some ethic analysis process adapting from the framework. For instance, I need to think about who will be affected in this situation. Obviously, it was the internet owner who might be slow down. I also have to think about the value in this situation, as a IT professional, it looks like we steal some valuable thing. so it is un ethical. Also it is against the law. . Question 4 Where you are working in your internship, locate your company's values statement or code of ethics and ask your supervisor if you can either link to it from the company website in the discussion forum or reproduce it in the forum. If your supervisor refuses permission, or there is no values statement or code of ethics, prepare one for their use based on the reading you have done. You might model it on one you have come across. If you need, look at the Western Australia Public Sector Code of Ethics as a guide. Write 100-200 words to evaluate the code of ethics or values statement, whichever you are working with, against this week’s readings. Discuss what is good about it, what might be missing and how it could be improved. The Monash College 's value states that Discussion Guidelines (Week 3) 1. Minimum number of posts required this week is 7 (marks will be deducted if you post fewer). 2. To keep the signal to noise ratio down, all posts must add to the meaning of the discussion and not just be a conversation. 3. Answers must be written concisely; marks will be deducted if you “write a lot, but say nothing”. 4. A quiz does not count as a post. Remember marks are awarded on your work as follows: 0 marks if there has been no reading of seminar and module overview as applicable in the week. 1 mark if reading of the seminar/module overview as applicable, has happened 2 marks if seminar/module reading has occurred and there is some quality work but it is not of sufficient quantity and/or timeliness 3 marks if above conditions are met and it has appropriate references to support the argument and discussion. 4 marks if all the requirements in 1, 2 & 3 above are present and the work demonstrates a high quality of engagement and thought.

2012年9月13日星期四

Myki

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2012年9月9日星期日

Sap bi

Data warehouse knowledge
High level architecture design
Full development life cycle
Understanding the business requirement and developing function specs
Minimum of 3 to 5 years of experience in:
SAP BI Data Modelling
SAP BI Queries Development
SAP BI Web Application Designer (WAD)
ABAP Programing
SAP Business Objects:
SAP BO Dashboards
SAP BO Crystal
SAP BO WEBI
SAP BO OLAP Analysis
Any knowledge of SAP Hana and Business Object Data Services would be an advantage.

2012年9月5日星期三

buy it

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2012年8月31日星期五

Monash tomorrow

31 what a day, today is the first that I work as a permanent worker in simplot Australia. The reson why I like to work there is partly because I can survive in here, I can prove myself that I work very hard to achieve my goal in Australia. Going to bed early is a good way to save my energy in the future.
Tomorrow is an important day in my life, because it is a very good opportunity to acquire knowledge and skills in a reputation university. Even I have to drive so far to reach the working destination, I am eager to seize this opportunity. Being a business analyst is a crucial role in my career, maybe it is a new starter in my job.
What is the good thing in the evening is going to bed early and write a good diary after a day's work and plan for tomorrow.

2012年8月30日星期四

Monash university

29 it is very far from my home to monash university, I am surprise that I have been there several times for basketball. Base one my experience, I can drive there so quickly. Maybe I should try public transport as well.

2012年8月28日星期二

My bike

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Diary

Now I am lack of motivation, I don't know why I am in this kind of situation, my determination is not strong enough to seize this opportunity. I am afraid of this situation, I am lack of self-esteem. Typing everything down is a very funny thing in my life. Because I don't want to speak to other person when I am upset. Today I sent two boxes of milk powder to China. Due to illegal business over there, the quality of the milk powder decrease sharply. We have to buy milk from oversea to protect our children.
I received a call this afternoon, the career consultant suggest me to prepare well for the interview and seize this opportunity. To achieve this goal, I go through all the material I have and read the mind map. Fortunately, I created the mind map before. Reviewing the mind maps is a convenience method to extract memory from my brain and refresh my knowledge. I would to imagine if I don't have the mind maps in my cloud storage online.
Yesterday I should put the day on a special event on my calendar about my friend in Australia.

2012年8月27日星期一

Cool

Cool

My diary

I want to get up early to seize my opportunities, if I lose this chance, I would hard to imagine my life in the near future. How can I achieve my goal in a short term. In terms of my ultimate goal, how can I success in financial freedom and live a good life in this country as such a poor boy.

2012年4月22日星期日

PPA

Report topic (workplace situation-description of problem/issue) The bacteria in the seafood products keep increasing this month. To investigate this issue, some actions must be taken. to avoid this happen again. Report tile (Report front page – concise , formal) Managing and reducing bacteria growth in product line Prepared for (reader) Name – Position – Company – Prepared by (writer- you) Name – Position – Company – Reader’s Requirements High level of technical knowledge Medium level of technical knowledge Low level of technical knowledge Is a glossary needed? Yes/No Yes/No Yes/No Yes/No Topic area (board) Topic area (specific) Purpose of reprot (aim) Current research? Own survey – Yes/No Someone else’s survery – Yes/No Credible information – Yes/No Expert opinion – Yes/No Yes/No Yes/No Yes/No Yes/No
Business Report Outline Name: wayne Report topic (workplace situation-description of problem/issue) The bacteria in the seafood products keep increasing this month. To investigate this issue, some actions must be tackern to advodi this happen again. Report tile (Report front page – concise , formal) Managing and reducing bacteria growth in product line Prepared for (reader) Prepared by (writer- you) Reader’s Requirements Topic area (board) Topic area (specific) Purpose of reprot (aim) Current research? Own survey – Yes/No Someone else’s survery – Yes/No Credible information – Yes/No Expert opinion – Yes/No Business Reprot Outline Name Report topic (workplace situation-description of problem/issue) The bacteria in the seafood products keep increasing this month. To investigate this issue, some actions must be tackern to advodi this happen again. Report tile (Report front page – concise , formal) Managing and reducing bacteria growth in product line Prepared for (reader) Name – Position – Company – Prepared by (writer- you) Name – Position – Company – Reader’s Requirements High level of technical knowledge Medium level of technical knowledge Low level of technical knowledge Is a glossary needed? Yes/No Yes/No Yes/No Yes/No Topic area (board) Topic area (specific) Purpose of reprot (aim) Current research? Own survey – Yes/No Someone else’s survery – Yes/No Credible information – Yes/No Expert opinion – Yes/No Yes/No Yes/No Yes/No Yes/No

2012年3月28日星期三

2012年3月18日星期日

Letter writing

GM Holden 43 Bay Street Port Melbourne 3011 www.gmholden.com.au 18 March 2011 Ms Jill Hopper CEO Flashy Web Design 286 St. Kilda Road Melbourne 3000 Dear Ms Jill Engaging Flashy Web Design Service for GMH I was very impress about your company’s presentation last week. I am very pleased to inform you that your company will be engaging in new website for GMH.I hope you will make the same effort to our new website. I will be grateful if you could in charge of planning our new website as well as creative work and implementation of new official GMH website. Please note that the final delivery day of website will be on September 08 with IT support for duration of 2010 and for 2011. Our agreed price for the website planning, creative work and implementation is 245,000. And for the 24 hour/7 day support is $23,000. I am enclosing the contact in the email. Please remember to return it to me by 24 March 2011. If you have any questions regarding this email or project, please do not hesitate to contact me in the future. I hope we can make our mutual for this exciting project and I am looking forward to you hearing from you. Yours sincerely, Manager of Online Marketing Alice Jenkins Encl GMH Website Contract Ph: 9675 3456 Fax: 9675 3457 Alice.jenkins@gmholden.monash.edu.au

2012年3月13日星期二

ibmer

Science, Statistics, Arts and More
Global Technology Services
IT Specialist:
Business Intelligence
Project Co-ordinator:
Project Management,
Service Delivery Management
Account Support:
Sales Operations, Finance,
Business Office Administration
Global Business Services
IT Consultants:
Application Development, Testing,
Project Management, Design, Analyst
Business Consultants:
Business Analyst, Strategy
and Transformation
IBM Global Finance
Business Operations
Sales & Distribution
Sales, Presales Support, Project
Management and Communications
Systems Technology Group
Sales Operations

2012年2月26日星期日

email

Inquire about staff development day Hi Pat I am writing to express my interest in a staff development day. I would like to attend this event but I don’t have enough information about it. Could you please send me some information about this event? Regards Wayne Allocation for annual staff appraisals Dear Teams I am delighted to organise interviews for the annual staff appraisals. We did very well last year and I am allocating all your availability in the following date. • March 6th 14:00 Exhibition Centre • March 8th 14:00 Exhibition Centre • March 9th 14:00 Exhibition Centre Please let me know when your best time is. I will try my best to collect best time for most of the team members. Kind Regards Wayne Wei

2012年1月29日星期日