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		<title>Being a Forward Thinker and Good Decision Making Skill</title>
		<link>http://aquarelles.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/being-a-forward-thinker-and-good-decision-making-skill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>apricotbaby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone will experience times when to decide  to raise an alarm to the stakeholders on any potential issues that post risk to the project schedule, cost and scope.   In fact, majority will feel that it is not the right time to do so or may feel that it is unnecessary while getting the project teams [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aquarelles.wordpress.com&blog=1823624&post=700&subd=aquarelles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Risk Assessment for Software Project Delay</title>
		<link>http://aquarelles.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/risk-assessment-for-software-project-delay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>apricotbaby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Critical bugs found in SIT, delay in other development components, inadequate test data and incomplete UAT test cases.  These are the issues that the project team have decide to raise to senior management for delaying the user acceptance testing (UAT) by 3 weeks.
Before the official communication is released to both Customer and internal management, we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aquarelles.wordpress.com&blog=1823624&post=706&subd=aquarelles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Checkpoints for Test Data Validation</title>
		<link>http://aquarelles.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/checkpoints-for-test-data-validation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>apricotbaby</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[software engineering]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before we start any testing, we need to include a milestone to validate all needed test data are setup correctly at the test environment.
Few things to be done for the various checkpoints:

Obtain the test data&#8217;s details from the Customer
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		<title>Localisations for Client-side applications</title>
		<link>http://aquarelles.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/localisations-for-client-side-applications/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>apricotbaby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When there are user requirements on localizations, we always refer to the user interface or client-side applications.  This is more on the usability and &#8216;look &#38; feel&#8217; of the user interfaces to be in the users&#8217; native languages, the inbound data&#8217;s encoding settings that are imported from gateway to data repository and the inputs of native words into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aquarelles.wordpress.com&blog=1823624&post=681&subd=aquarelles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Calcuation for Shipments&#8217; Estimated vs Actual Delivery Dates</title>
		<link>http://aquarelles.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/calcuation-for-shipments-estimated-vs-actual-delivery-dates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>apricotbaby</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Businesss]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[estimated delivery dates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ETA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ETD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freight]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Customers like to get their shipments to reach the required destinations on time as to fulfill the customer satisfaction.  The calculation fo the estimated delivery dates/times varies on the user requirements and expectation to track each shipment milestone.
The works to do to get the calculation are:

Understand the various shipment milestones and what are the end-to-end [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aquarelles.wordpress.com&blog=1823624&post=670&subd=aquarelles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>System Specification Document for Warehouse Management System</title>
		<link>http://aquarelles.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/system-specification-document-for-warehouse-management-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>apricotbaby</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[software engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[system design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[system specification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[warehouse management]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aquarelles.wordpress.com/?p=659</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In business computing, we understand that we need to capture and translate the business requirements into technical specifications in assist and understand what and how the proposed system is going to be designed.  Due to different solution for the different industries, the contents in a system specification document will vary but it should capture all the required [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aquarelles.wordpress.com&blog=1823624&post=659&subd=aquarelles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Effective Meetings with Stakeholders</title>
		<link>http://aquarelles.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/effective-meetings-with-stakeholders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>apricotbaby</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[PM Skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[effective meetings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[presenations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most project meetings are always over-do or not following according to the agenda or the topics are out of sync from what the presenter is really trying to bring out.
We need to acquire the effective ways to bring out the points to the stakeholders to deliver and close with the maximum impacts that are to bring to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aquarelles.wordpress.com&blog=1823624&post=638&subd=aquarelles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Missing Data via Web Service Request</title>
		<link>http://aquarelles.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/missing-data-via-web-service-request/</link>
		<comments>http://aquarelles.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/missing-data-via-web-service-request/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>apricotbaby</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[software engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[connection timeout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web services]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aquarelles.wordpress.com/?p=639</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In all testing, one of the important test scope that need to be implemented in any web interface is data loading testing.  In this type of testing, mass records from a single message interface are generated to stimulate any possibility of encountering data loss and the immediate solution to rectify the problem.
Currently my project is going through [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aquarelles.wordpress.com&blog=1823624&post=639&subd=aquarelles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scopes for Freight Implementation</title>
		<link>http://aquarelles.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/scopes-for-freight-implementation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>apricotbaby</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Logistics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[software engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EDI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freight]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aquarelles.wordpress.com/?p=628</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We had got the business for ODM Shanghai Freight.  The implementation that we need to work on is to receive the shuttle manifest from the Customer&#8217;s AS2 gateway and also to send back EDI214 back to the gateway as well.
The scopes involves data-mappings, application interfaces at both origin and destinations for the shipment receiving and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aquarelles.wordpress.com&blog=1823624&post=628&subd=aquarelles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feasibility Study &#8211; Suppliers&#8217; ASN Reconcilation</title>
		<link>http://aquarelles.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/feasibility-study-suppliers-asn-reconcilation/</link>
		<comments>http://aquarelles.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/feasibility-study-suppliers-asn-reconcilation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>apricotbaby</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IT Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logistics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[software engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cross docking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supply chain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vendor managed inventory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VMI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[warehouse management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When we perform VMI (Vendor Managed Inventory) receiving at our warehouse and perform receiving of the shipments based on the shipment documents, the electronic feeds from the suppliers do not include ASN (Advance Shipment Notice) information.  We need to perform the suppliers and ASNs&#8217; reconciliation from our customer&#8217;s planning and forecast application, and triggers the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aquarelles.wordpress.com&blog=1823624&post=617&subd=aquarelles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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