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SAP those days. Hahhhahahahahahahahahaha.

OK oooo.

Una weh done.

Go to synagogue for deliverance

This thread should be pinned.

I want to thank Welf99 for guiding me through the process of critic skills application.

I got my Critical Visa.

Welf99 you too much.

Thanks again

If you have any of these servers in the pic , leave your phone number behind and I will call you.

2.

Pls do you have any of the servers listed in the pic for sale?

Leave your number here and I will call you for negotiations

SM04

Patronise my friend.

Habari.

Please where do I find egusi and ogbonno. I want to cook and can't find them in nakumatt or uchumi.


Kenya is a good place.

I have made good friends. I have also bought a swahili book. Very soon I will start writing in swahili.

Asking for a friend

Any clues or referrals?

Basically a remote realtime replication server hardware/software

Hello
My company needs a disaster recovery solution urgently. Kindly get in touch via obixyreal@yahoo.com
Thank you

Hello my ogas and madams at the top.
I greet una.

Any HANA,Ariba or Nakissa enthusiasts in the house?

GEJ and Buhari-Two difficult products to sell come 2015.Who is the game changer? Where will the game changer emerge from? Certainly not from the five Guvnors,none of them has has any history of attempted attempt to leave a great legacy behind like Fash or AKpabio.(Pls replace Fash and Akpa boi with your own choice of performing guvnors. )

What will follow if OBJ's letter to GEJ doesn't give OBJ and his caucus the desired result and effect. What will follow next?

I don't expect anything less from Tukur and the presidential aides in times like this,this is the time for them to fight all their political battles using GEJ's name.
Watch out for the 'attack lion vs Liar mohammed show' coming to the cinema in your neighbourhood soon.

I planned a lot for myself earlier in the year
I vowed to perfect my swimming skills but after drinking so much water in the deep end of the pool,I got really scared.I mean very scared.
I also vowed,in fact I swore that I must be very good at speaking and writing the French languague but look at me now.The only French word I can remember now is j'taime......
The only compensation for me are the underlisted skills that I got this year

1.SAP Solution Manager installation n config

2.Solman ITSM incident mgt config and admin

3.Project mgt (PMI)

4.Patience n Empathy in teaching others

These skiils compliment other skills I have.

Abeg oo,Make una help me na, teach me this french language

Swimming remains on full suspension till people stop drowning.

Thank you

Hi cia,good to have you here,I look forward to learning alot from you.
I read this article from http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/street-smart-erp/hidden-erp-implementation-costs-exposed-58179? And felt i Should
Share with us.
What is your take?

Many within the ERP industry like to focus on the somewhat comical number of ERP project failures. I suppose I am guilty of this as well. But, at least I will admit that many so-called "failures", were nothing more than a failure to manage expectations. 
 
From the perspective of sr. management, often the biggest unpleasant surprise is the actual implementation costs. Therefore, developing solid cost estimates is an important part of the ERP Project Manager's survival guide.
 
Potential ERP Budget Items
 
Many also state that a primary reason for cost-overruns is not understanding the hidden costs of implementation or on-going support. Well, these costs are not really hiding, you just need to know where to look!
 
The following is a list of potential budget items. Whether the plan is to host the ERP system internally or use Software-as-a-Service, you will pay something for many of these items one way or another.
 
Education and Training
 
Sr. Management ERP Education
Industry Practices Education
Project Team ERP Software Training
IT Systems Admin Training
IT Application Development Training
Implementation Tools Training
End-User ERP Software Training
 
Application Software
 
ERP Software Package
Bolt-on Applications
 
Systems Hardware
 
ERP Servers
Bolt-on Application Servers
Internal Network Upgrades
Telecom Service Upgrades
PC's / Tablets
Mobile Devices
Data Collection Devices
Printers
Storage Access Network (SAN)
 
Systems Software
 
Operating Systems
Data Base Software
Web Services Software
Client / PC Software
Middleware / Integration Products
EDI Software
Forms / PDF Management
Job Scheduler (Batch Programs)
Data Back-Up / Recovery
 
Implementation Tools
 
Application Development Tools
ERP Application Set-Up Tools
3rd Party Application Development Tools
3rd Party Report Writers/Data Query Tools
Project Scheduling Software
Process Mapping Software
Other Implementation Tools
 
Consulting
 
ERP Readiness Assessment
Software Selection
Change Management
Industry Practices / Process Redesign
Project Management
Application Consulting
ERP Software Technical
Bolt-on Applications Consulting
Systems Software Technical
Go-Live Readiness Assessment
 
Software Development
 
Data Conversions
Interfaces
Software Modifications
Reports
 
Additional Employees or Staffing
 
Project Team
IT Department
Temporary Staffing (backfill, load data, etc)
 
Other Project Costs
 
Project / Training Facilities and Equipment
Travel and Living Expenses (Team and Consultants)
Project Team Incentive Bonuses
Hardware Shipping Cost
Sales Tax
Contingency Factor
 
On-Going Support Costs
 
ERP Software Maintenance
All other Software Maintenance
All Hardware / Equipment Maintenance
Outsourced IT Infrastructure Fees
ERP Software-as-a-Service Fees
Software Upgrades
Hardware Upgrades
 
Did I miss anything?

babyosisi: You want me to have a broke inlaw
Chukwu Aju!!
Will you use sand to pay the bride price?
Mbaise women are not cheap o FYI
I am looking for a man that is already swimming in money
We don't encourage poor suitors biko
Ask CFC if he has cousins that won't mind drinking garri

I just dey laugh

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Thank you @babyosisi for the thoughtful gesture of sharing this volume of information despite the attacks.
Pls I sent you a PM since yesterday. Can I have your email address?
Kindly reply.
Thank you.

When it comes to career advancement and new job opportunities, your resume is at the heart of it all. It is the key that unlocks the door to networking, interviews (formal and informational) and building your personal brand. A solid resume is essentially a marketing tool that helps you stand out from the crowd. In short, it is an extremely important personal asset.

Recently I attended a session called Revving Up With Recruiting as part of SAP’s Leadership Excellence Acceleration Program (LEAP). During this session, Kevin Sheal, a recruiting expert with SAP’s Talent Acquisition team, and Glenn Sward, VP of Talent Acquisition at SAP, tackled the question of what recruiters are looking for in a resume. With over 40 years of collective experience in recruiting, the two were able to share some really insightful tips on resume writing and interviewing. For this blog, I’ll focus on resumes.

For most of us, writing a resume is not easy…or fun. It’s tough to boil down years of experience into one measly page and to demonstrate all the great work that you’ve done in short bullet points. And when recruiters spend an average of only 20 seconds reviewing your resume, it has to be compelling and unique.

To help you accomplish this difficult feat, here are some great tips to help both early-stage and late-stage career people write a resume that truly impresses:

1.  Highlight your results. With only 20 seconds to impress a recruiter, you really want to focus your resume on your accomplishments. In fact, 80% of your resume should be results. Take the time to quantity the specific business outcomes that your work has delivered and highlight your impact on the business. For example, a result on your resume may be that you reduced costs by 5% or that you increased revenue or improved cycle times by 10%. It’s not enough to state that you increased productivity – you need back it up with quantifiable data whenever possible.

2.  Include a professional summary. A professional summary is a high-level summary of your results and achievements. This provides you with the opportunity to tell a little more about yourself and to highlight your key attributes and accomplishments upfront. So, don’t worry about an objective – recruiters and hiring managers usually skip over it, or worse, will screen your resume out based on an objective that is not a perfect match for the job they are hiring for. Instead, let your professional summary and experience, skills and results make the case for you.

3.  Put the strongest results first. Recruiters often only read the first few points, so put the accomplishments that you’re most proud of and that are most relevant to the position first.  When it comes to resumes, “space equals importance.” Spend more time and space talking about the things that are directly related to the job for which you are applying.

4.  Have multiple versions of your resume. The “one-size fits all” approach won’t cut it in today’s marketplace of increasingly specialized needs. Your resume should be tailored to the position. This includes updating your resume frequently to include your most recent accomplishments.

5.  Focus on two guiding principles: relevant and recent. When writing your resume, focus on including the most relevant (to the open position) and recent (within the last 5 years) information. If you have 20+ years of work experience, you should reduce experiences that occurred more than 5 years ago to one or two bullet points. The specifics are only important for recent career experiences.

6.  Keep it one (or two) pages. With resumes, size matters a lot. Keep the resume to one or two pages depending on your experience.  If your resume is more than a page, be sure to include your name and email contact on subsequent pages. Also, do your best early on to make sure the recruiter and hiring manager will want to read more!

7.  Get a second set of eyes to review it. Ask someone you trust to carefully review your resume. Make sure that after reading your resume that person fully understands your background, skills, qualifications and accomplishments.

8.  Avoid all complicated fonts or design elements. To be considered an applicant, you will likely be uploading your resume to an applicant tracking system (ATS). If a resume is difficult to read recruiters usually won’t bother reading further.

9.  Edit very carefully. Check your resumes for errors of fact, typos, formatting woes or omissions.  After you have reviewed it, let a trusted person look it over as well.  One inaccuracy or misspelling could cost you a second look.

10.  Don’t include everything. Omit any unnecessary, or potentially controversial, information, including sexual orientation, religious or political affiliations. It’s illegal for employers to ask for this information and it is irrelevant to whether you are a strong candidate for the job.


http://blogs.sap.com/innovation/human-resources/10-tips-resume-will-land-next-big-career-move-0634489

6 – Creating Visual Models

Most BAs tend to have a natural preference for either textual or visual models. Requirements specifications ideally include both types of information, as different stakeholders learn in different ways.

Unless your organization uses formal UML or BPMN standards, focus on learning to create simple visual models, such as workflow diagrams, information models, and system-context diagrams.

5 - Writing Requirements Specifications

In a new business analyst role, typically there will be a few types of requirements specifications that are most commonly created. If you landed the job without those specific skills, you’ll want to review your organization’s templates and get familiar with what a good requirements specification should look like. Getting your hands on a few samples from fellow BAs inside your organization is also a good idea, as this will clarify exactly what you are expected to produce. Even if you have experience with a specification type, this is a good activity as standards tend to vary from one organization to another.

4 - Thickening Your Skin

Business analysis does take a thick skin. Positive feedback is akin to gold but negative feedback is common.

In response to your questions, you’ll see eye rolls (or hear silence on the conference line where you’ll assume eye rolls are happening).

In response to your well-groomed requirements document, you’ll receive critical remarks – about the requirements themselves or the phrasing.

In response to your meeting invites, stakeholders will tell you they are too busy or just simply not show up at all, leaving you behind on your requirements development plan. (What, you didn’t have a plan? Don’t miss skill 7.)

It’s easy to think these reactions are about you and your skills. And while it’s great to leverage feedback to improve your skills, it’s important to separate yourself from the feedback as well so the business analysis process can do its job. Business analysis is an iterative process and a constant barrage of feedback is part of the game.

3 - Asking Good Questions – And All of Them

Asking questions can be nerve-wracking.

What if the question we ask is stupid?

What if we are expected to know the answer?

What if our stakeholders don’t know the answer?

Learning to ask questions is essential to conducting business analysis. This part of business analysis is called elicitation.

You can build confidence in your elicitation skills by first asking questions of a sympathetic stakeholder or fellow business analyst, perhaps the one assigned to mentor you. Then build your way up to asking challenging questions in a small

2 - Analyzing the Problem

When you are new, it can be easy to accept the solution, scope, or project idea at face value. More mature business analysts tend to question assumptions and challenge stakeholder’s solution ideas. The skill behind this line of questioning is analysis and it takes critical thinking skills.

Experimenting with different requirements models, such as business process flows and use cases, can help you improve your analysis skills. So can developing a healthy curiosity for how things work and thinking through problems in a logical way.

But analyzing is only part of the requirements process. The other half of the requirements process involves getting answers to the gaps you find, and that involves asking good questions. That can be tougher than it seems.

The Top 10 Skills for a New Business Analyst to Shore Up On.

Have you recently accepted your first business analyst position? Are you starting a new business analyst role and wondering what skills you should work on first?

While it’s always a good idea to customize your professional development plan by working with your manager, what follows are the 10 skills that new business analysts tend to need to work on first. Invest in improving in these skill areas and you’ll be well on your way to becoming a valued and successful business analyst.

1 - Facilitating Meetings

It’s pretty rare to be a business analyst and not facilitate meetings. The meetings you schedule, plan, and facilitate could be small (just you and a stakeholder or two for a half hour discussion) or large (10+ stakeholders for several hours or even a couple of days). Or they could fall anywhere in between. My experience has most typically involved facilitating 3-5 person meetings that last about an hour, maybe 1 ½-2 hours, some of which include conference call attendees or are completely virtual.

As a new business analyst you’ll want to get the basics of facilitating meetings down and then work on making them more productive over time. I call productive meetings working meetings – because real work gets done.

Business Analyst Career Road Map
The way the economy has been performing the last decade, sadly Business Analysts have been mischaracterized quite often as “Operational Efficiency Experts” or “Process Experts”. For many start-ups  as well as established businesses, they don’t see the need for a Business Analyst unless they go into “reactionary” mode, and they are looking for improvement. Many people don’t see the need for Business Analyst when they are in a “proactive” mode.

Business analysis is one area that is gaining momentum in the professional scenario and I think this road map will surely help Business Analyst professionals to gain a momentum as well as improve the knowledge levels on their career path. Surely it’s one of the fastest growing careers today.

If you are thinking of launching a career as a business analyst or want to take your BA career to a new level, be sure to check out this new resource from IIBA.

The IIBA Business Analyst Career Road Map outlines the business analysis opportunities available to you. The Career Road Map is designed to identify the many roles within business analysis, and show your options based on your experience today. It includes the emerging roles in business architecture and business intelligence which are in high demand. You can also view the intermediate and senior roles available for a Business Analyst.

The role names are not job titles – a role name represents the various tasks, techniques and knowledge needed by an individual to be successful in the business analysis profession.  The roles could be combined into one position:  a business requirements analyst could also have deep expertise in process and therefore the business requirements analyst and process analyst roles can be considered as a career path. Most of the companies will be having the roles combined. So from a business analysis professional, he might land up doing multiple roles while having the title of a business analyst or a business process analyst.

Please be informed of the IIBA lagos meeting holding on the 17th July,2013 at The Villa Angelia Boutique Hotel, No 20, Oju Olobun street, V/I- Lagos.5:30pm - 8pm Hoping to see you all there !

Hi Pyramid,Thank you for the opportunity to learn from a great guy like you.I will call you in few hours from now . Thank you sir

pyramid777: Hi Nnaiah,

You really inspire me with your posts,i would like to have you among my network if you dont mind... I am currently a CBAP, PMP and SAP FI certified working with an international company based in Lagos. kindly send me a text on 07064869777 with your linkedin details if its okay by you. I believe we can learn alot from each other.

Regards,