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CoffeeCAST - #54 - Process

 Welcome to the 54th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd.

I hope all is well with everyone.  I have asked Michael Ianni-Palarchio to join me today where we will be discussing:

1. Misalignment between scope estimation and the truth
2. • Lowball Estimates and Change Request to death
   • Too high, not enough intimate knowledge and too much worst case
3. Working within Customers delivery processes
4. Clearfit - A way to see your new hires in a different light

54 CoffeeCAST #54 - Process

Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation.  So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic.

The audiocast is available on iTunes (as a Podcast) or here for download.  Have a great day and join the conversation.

CoffeeCAST #52 - Consultant in the Middle

Welcome to the 52nd CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd.

Happy New Year and we are back on the air as it were.  I have asked Graham to join me while we talk a little about:

1. Consultant in the Middle / Readiness

1. Master Data Management (MDM - IBM, Oracle and Teradata)
2. Moving data around costs money
3. Business Intelligence Trends in 2008

Download 52_coffeecast_52_consultant_in_the_middle.mp3

Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation.  So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic.

The audiocast is available on iTunes (as a Podcast) or here for download.  Have a great day and join the conversation.

Call for Tuesday CoffeeCAST ideas

I fell out of habit and was busy, so last year I did not do as much blogging or podcasting as I would have liked.

So even though I have been reading that podcasting isn't getting the results or coverage that some people were hoping for I am going to rejig and start doing these again.  I will hopefully kick one off this week, one day late (Wed instead of Tue) where I will talk with Graham about a post he did not too long ago.

What I was hoping for was some ideas from the outside of any topics that you would like explored.  Of course they have to be in the area of our blog (consulting, business intelligence, data warehouseing, collaboration, rapid result and the like).

So if you have any ideas please share and we can explore them together.

CoffeeCAST #51 - Teradata Partners 2007 - Wednesday Part 2 and Thursday

Welcome to the 51st CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd. Live from Las Vegas.

Hello again from Vegas - baby.  We are coming close to covering the end of a great week at the Teradata 2007 Partners event.  This is a recap of Part 2 of the Wednesday sessions along with Thursday mornings sessions.

There were many sessions throughout the day.  The ones we went to were:

1. Join Indexes
2. Microsoft Relationship - Todd Walters, Teradata
3. A Discussion with Rick Makos - President of Teradata Canada
4. Partitioned Primary Indexes
5. Being a Teradata DBA
6. Creating interactive conversations
7. Implementing Row Level Security
8. Develop Enterprise Metadata Management
9. The Road to Dual Active

Download 5151_cc_51_teradata_partners_wednesday_part_2.mp3

Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation.  So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic.

The audiocast is available on iTunes (as a Podcast) or here for download.  Have a great day and join the conversation.

CoffeeCAST #50 - Teradata Partners 2007 - Wednesday Part 1

Welcome to the 50th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd. Live from Las Vegas.

Hello again from Vegas - baby.  We are coming close to covering the end of a great week at the Teradata 2007 Partners event.  This is a recap of Part 1 of the Wednesday sessions.

There were many sessions throughout the day.  The ones we went to were (covered in this and Wednesday Part 2):

1. Best Practices for Teradata Backup and Restore - Jeremy Davis, Teradata
2. Agile Development Practices for Business Intelligence - Sullivan McConnell, The Travelers Companies
3. Performance Optimization Techniques in a Teradata/MicroStrategy Environment - Chet Aitken, Hudson's Bay
4. Structured Method for Tuning Teradata SQL
5. Develop Enterprise Metadata Management
6. The Road to Dual Active

Download 50_cc_50_teradata_partners_wednesday_part_1_fixed.mp3

Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation.  So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic.

The audiocast is available on iTunes (as a Podcast) or here for download.  Have a great day and join the conversation.

CoffeeCAST #49 - Teradata Partners 2007 - Wednesday Closing General Session

Welcome to the 49th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd. Live from Las Vegas.

Hello again from Vegas - baby.  We are coming close to covering the end of a great week at the Teradata 2007 Partners event.  The closing session was great, Graham and I continue with some discussion on the closing session.

This was an inspiring session which had the theme of innovation.  So before we go on to our last CoffeeCAST in regards to this event, here is the discussion that Graham and I had after the session by Dean Kamen (most notably known for the invention of the Segway, but the least of his advances)

1. Innovation versus Invention
2. Innovation is more about surprises (negative) what he refers to as rude realities of issues which are unforeseen
3. Seven Rude Realities
4. Three Suggestions
5. Introduction to Deka Research and Development Corporation
6. A very fast overview of FIRST - For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology a great and fast growing movement to bring the 'bling' into Science and Technology

Download 49_coffeecast_49_teradata_partners_2007_wednesday_part_1.mp3

Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation.  So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic.

The audiocast is available on iTunes (as a Podcast) or here for download.  Have a great day and join the conversation.

CoffeeCAST #48 - Teradata Partners 2007 - Tuesday Sessions

Welcome to the 48th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd. Live from Las Vegas.

Hello again from Vegas - baby.  It was the end of a great week at the Teradata 2007 Partners event and Graham and I continue on to discuss more of our thoughts on the conference.

Tuesday was a jam packed with some great stuff.  So we summarize at a high level by talking about today's sessions that I attended:

1. Future Trends in Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence - Gartner Presentation by Donald Feinberg
2. What's Your Strategy for Master Data Management - A discussion on systems convergence
3. Gaining CxO's Support for your EDW and Business Intelligence - Ron Swift - Teradata
4. Teradata Active System Management (TASM)
5. A New Era of Data Integration with ELT approach - CTO one-on-one with Stephen Brobst of Teradata
6. Active Ingest to Support Active Enterprise Intelligence
7. Back Up And Recovery - early morning session
8. What's New with Stored Procedures
9. The New Query Rewrite Subsystem in V2R12.0
10. Table Functions: A Tutorial

So as you can see a lot of covered ground, so we only go into it in a couple of areas.

Download 48_coffeecast_48_teradata_partners_2007_tuesday.mp3

Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation.  So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic.

The audiocast is available on iTunes (as a Podcast) or here for download.  Have a great day and join the conversation.

CoffeeCAST #47 - Teradata Partners 2007 - Monday Sessions Part 2

Welcome to the 47th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd. Live from Las Vegas.

Hello from Vegas - baby.  It was the end of a great week at the Teradata 2007 Partners event and Graham and I decided to take some time away from the wine and tables to discuss our thoughts on the conference.

Monday was a busy day with some great stuff.  So we continue by talking about today's sessions that I attended:

1. Performance Management
   • Top 7 Best Practices
   • The Cause of Poor Performance
   • Strategies and Approaches
     • Data Collection
     • Performance Management
     • Planning
     • Workload Management
   • Tools

Download 47_coffeecast_47_teradata_partners_2007_monday_part_2.mp3

Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation.  So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic.

The audiocast is available on iTunes (as a Podcast) or here for download.  Have a great day and join the conversation.

CoffeeCAST #46 - Teradata Partners 2007 - Monday Sessions Part 1

Welcome to the 46th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd. Live from Las Vegas.

Hello from Vegas - baby.  It is the end of a great week at the Teradata 2007 Partners event and Graham and I have decided to take some time away from the wine and tables to discuss our thoughts on the conference.

Monday was a busy day with some great stuff.  So we start by talking about today's sessions that Graham attended:

1. Teradata Query Optimization
   
   • Statistics
   • Evenly Distribution across nodes
   • Indexes
   • A Little discussion on Nodes and Amps
2. 20 Tb/hour Backup
   • Backup and Recovery
   • Netvault from Bakbone Software
   • The story from eBay
     • Custom built
     • Sun hardware
   • Leveraging Archmain
   • After Image Journaling

Download 46_coffeecast_46_teradata_partners_2007_monday_part_1.mp3

Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation.  So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic.

The audiocast is available on iTunes (as a Podcast) or here for download.  Have a great day and join the conversation.

CoffeeCAST #45 - Teradata Partners 2007 - Keynote Address

Download 45_coffeecast_45_teradata_partners_2007_keynote_address.mp3 Welcome to the 45th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd. 

Hello from Vegas - baby.  It is the end of day one of the Teradata 2007 Partners event and we have decided to break up the week as individual CoffeeCAST (or as Graham would like to call this one WineCAST as we are at THEhotel at Mandalay Bay bar and not a usual coffee shop having a glass of wine.

Today we had a chance to hear some of the first messaging from Teradata since they went out on their own from NCR on Oct.1st.  So we start by talking about today's keynote address where we heard the following:

1. Mike Koehler - President and CEO Teradata - Raising Intelligence
   • The new Teradata allows them to Integrate, Manage and Use - some great strengths
   • Teradata 12
   • Dual Active
   • Being Green - 5500 server - 2.6 x increase in performance with 75% less energy consumption
   • Partnerships - Microsoft Analytics, Agilent and SAS (see below)
2. Announcement of SAS Partnership and Dr. Goodnight who got up on stage with Mike
   • Joint Engineering
   • Joint solutions
   • Joint Roadmap and Selling
   • Integration of the two products
   • Centre of Excellence for Architects and Consultants
   • with the Goal to cut the cost of data analytics
3. Geoffrey Moore - Analytics and Innovation
   • Why aren't analytics everyhwere - a brief discussion and point of view
   • Business Architecture Model
     • Complex systems - smaller volume hogher cost environment
     • Volume operations
   • Catagory Maturity Lifecycle
     • Tech adoption
     • growth market
     • mature market
     • declining market
   • Change the vector of innovation

Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation.  So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic.

The audiocast is available on iTunes (as a Podcast) or here for download.  Have a great day and join the conversation.