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# DMA Systems Inc.

Data Insights for Informed Decisions 

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## Posts

- [IRIS 2022: Quantitative Cyber Risk Insights](https://www.dmasystems.ca/archives/1350) - "Could it happen to us? And how bad could it be? If these questions are on your mind, a good place to start looking for answers is the IRIS 2022 Report from Cyentia. This report analyzes 77,000 publicly disclosed cyber events experienced over a 10-year period by some 35,000 organizations.
- [Good Reads: How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk](https://www.dmasystems.ca/archives/832) - All Models are wrong, but some are useful. (George Box) …and some are measurably better than others. (Douglas Hubbard). Such is the premise of the book How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk, in which Douglas Hubbard and Richard Seiersen take a critical look at conventional methods of assessing Cybersecurity risk, and offer an alternative.
- [Excel to R: Visualising Data - Part 2](https://www.dmasystems.ca/archives/798) - Last time we took a quick pass through the basics of good data visualisation and then finished with a simple demonstration that showed a bit of what R can do with charts. This post will show how I created the chart in R. By the time we’re done you should have an overview of how
- [Excel to R: Visualising Data](https://www.dmasystems.ca/archives/712) - Analysis and persuasion. A large part of my day-to-day work involves visualising data for either or both of these purposes. I consolidate data into charts and tables, sometimes to help me see patterns and sometimes to help other see what the data has to say. Excel has been an important tool along the way,
- [Data Discovery with Excel: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly](https://www.dmasystems.ca/archives/516) - If data is a window into a problem then one of the main goals of data science is getting people to look through the window: Do you see patterns? Are the apparent patterns real? Do they help you understand the situation? Can you use what you see to predict beyond the horizon? So, how well
- [Excel to R: The Analysis ToolPak](https://www.dmasystems.ca/archives/635) - A useful, but often overlooked Excel feature is the Analysis ToolPak. It’s useful because it packages about 20 commonly used statistical functions in a format that is very easy to use. It gets overlooked because it has to be activated through the Excel Options dialog before it even becomes visible. If the Analysis ToolPak is
- [Excel to R: Do you Like Green Eggs and Ham?](https://www.dmasystems.ca/archives/584) - Excel is such a handy tool for data discovery and analysis that it’s fair to ask, “Why bother with anything else, especially an arcane scripting environment like R?” The truth is that the transition from Excel to R is very much a green eggs and ham experience: decidedly unappealing at the outset, even for adventurous
- [Data Science Isn't Just Big Data](https://www.dmasystems.ca/archives/498) - The client wanted 30 minutes. More precisely, they needed to eliminate a 30-minute delay between completing a finished product test in a manufacturing quality control lab and communicating the result back to the operators on the production line. By making data more available to inform decisions about process equipment settings, simply automating that reporting step led
- [The Fork and Cork Grill](https://www.dmasystems.ca/archives/478) - Live theatre, live music, dining out. Besides being three of my favourite past-times, what do they have in common? Each is a performance in which skilled and talented people collaborate, bringing the best they have in order to create memorable experiences for the patrons they serve. The people who do it have to be on
- [What About Requirements Documents?](https://www.dmasystems.ca/archives/457) - My last post was about why Use Cases should still be considered alive and well as an analysis technique in Agile projects. That begs the question: if people can dismiss Use Cases as old fashioned and a waste of time, is there any place left for traditional Requirements documents? I am not a fan of
- [Are Use Cases Becoming Old-Fashioned?](https://www.dmasystems.ca/archives/446) - A few weeks ago a discussion popped up on LinkedIn titled "Use Cases are old-fashioned and a waste of time and money". Provocative, to be sure, the debate that followed (at last count 88 comments and building) was an entertaining romp through the personal biases of a number of experienced practitioners. There were two distinct camps.
- [Soft Systems Methodology](https://www.dmasystems.ca/archives/414) - Life is messy. Those of us who work as business analysts see it in the myriad of ways in which people create, store and retrieve information in order to do their work. Called upon to help improve a situation, we often reach for help in the form of a methodology. The trouble with most system
- [Notes on Notes](https://www.dmasystems.ca/archives/391) - As much as technology permeates our daily lives it has been slow to enter the simple act of note-taking. Look around the next time you're in a meeting: low-tech rules. If there are a dozen people in the room, chances are that no more than one or two will be using anything more sophisticated than
- [Open Source Content Management: The DNN Platform](https://www.dmasystems.ca/archives/368) - How do you use Microsoft and Open Source in the same sentence without creating an oxymoron? Answer: talk about the application, not the technology stack that runs it. The application is DotNetNuke, also known as the DNN Platform and Evoq. Originally bundled with the first release of Visual Studio .NET as a sample project, the
- [Open Source Content Management: Magnolia-CMS](https://www.dmasystems.ca/archives/345) - Last month I started talking about open source alternatives to SharePoint for document management and team collaboration. Before getting into the merits of any particular solution let me say a bit more about the business problem that's behind the evaluation. As a writer I read a lot and I accumulate material in the form of
- [ECM for Small and Mid-Sized Enterprises](https://www.dmasystems.ca/archives/338) - Managing electronic documents isn't just a “big organization” problem. Small and mid-sized organizations need to be able to protect, organize and share electronic content just as much but they don't have a $1 million+ budget to deal with the problem. Convinced that “making do” with file shares is not enough, a budget conscious buyer is
- [6 Reasons to Like CDs](https://www.dmasystems.ca/archives/326) - This post started with some random skips in the music on the CD player in my home stereo. The unit is just old enough that the skips prompted questions about whether to repair or replace it. A few phone calls and a couple of trips to some local audio shops delivered an ominous message: CDs
- [Small and Mid-Sized Enterprise 2.0](https://www.dmasystems.ca/archives/71) - Enterprise 2.0 is gaining attention as a way to describe the way that social media tools are changing the way that people communicate at work. What (if any) relevance does that have for small and mid-sized organizations? If you perceive a hint of déjà vu it’s probably a memory of things we were saying a
- [Adopting Web 2.0 PM Tools – A Question of Balance](https://www.dmasystems.ca/archives/80) - My last post began to make a case for Web 2.0 tools as something that can give project teams access to collaboration and information sharing capabilities that many organizations have viewed as simply out of reach. One of the risks in embracing a new technology is that it may consume a lot of time and
- [Web 2.0 for Project Management – Why Email Isn’t Enough](https://www.dmasystems.ca/archives/108) - My last post about Web 2.0 tools for project management led to two lines o f conversation with some colleagues. The first was about and how poor communication about requirements can lock in design mistakes early in Design / Build projects and lead to major rework costs later on. The other was about why we
- [Web 2.0 for Project Management – The Product Research Challenge](https://www.dmasystems.ca/archives/119) - If Web 2.0 tools offer the promise of better project communication, what does “better” look like? Answering that means considering two broad dimensions of project communication that point in opposite directions. In one direction there's collaboration where the priority is the individual experience of finding and sharing information. In that context “better” looks like one-stop-shopping
- [SharePoint for Project Management](https://www.dmasystems.ca/archives/129) - So, what happened to 2010. The short version is that I did the research, and it has been an interesting journey. Those who attended last year's PMI Southwestern Ontario Spring Symposium heard part of the story. The next several posts will tell the rest with each one take an in-depth look at one solution. Let's
- [SharePoint Maturity Model and Project Management](https://www.dmasystems.ca/archives/152) - One more word about SharePoint. A wise man once said "a fool with a tool is still a fool". Changing behaviour is at the heart of any organization's effort to introduce new tools, and SharePoint is no different than any other technology in that respect. SharePoint is a medium for building a project management information
- [Web 2.0 for Project Management – OneHub](https://www.dmasystems.ca/archives/171) - Imagine this scenario. Your project team is spread out across several organizations. You need a place to put files and share a task list, a calendar and maybe a wiki. Sound familiar? OneHub might be what you're looking for. The home page makes a simple, straightforward claim: “Secure, fast and easy-to-use file sharing for any
- [Web 2.0 for Project Management: Basecamp](https://www.dmasystems.ca/archives/199) - With over 5 million subscribers world-wide, Basecamp rivals MS Project for most-used project management software. Yet these two tools offer very different capabilities. MS Project has a well-established place in the Project Manager's tool kit as an aid to managing schedules and budgets. Basecamp focuses on team collaboration. This post takes a closer look at
- [Web 2.0 for Project Management: Team Headquarters](https://www.dmasystems.ca/archives/231) - Effective collaboration is the result of good communication and coordination of work. So far this series has been mostly about communication tools that appeal to small teams who don't have much formal process in the way they approach project management. Teams like that want just enough structure to organize their work without introducing much process
- [Is Yours a Know-How or a Know-Who Organization?](https://www.dmasystems.ca/archives/294) - Have you ever read something you wrote a long time ago and then compared it to the way you think today? Cleaning up my home office on the weekend I came across a review I had written about 10 years ago about some research published in Harvard Business Review. The original research article was about
- [Moving to Linux Mint 13](https://www.dmasystems.ca/archives/279) - Like a lot of people, I tend to view operating system upgrades as something to avoid. If forced to change I want the experience to be as simple and painless as possible. So, when the support lifetime ended for the Linux Mint version I had been running on my main desktop, there was a wee
- [A Learning Approach to IT Projects](https://www.dmasystems.ca/archives/49) - In a recent series of posts on HBR, Susan Cramm talked about the problem of getting IT leaders and business leaders to agree on how to approach system redesign projects. That led naturally enough to a discussion about Big-Bang versus iterative approaches, and how the latter make some business leaders nervous. The paradox is that
- [A Tale of Two Systems](https://www.dmasystems.ca/archives/1) - Integrating two service businesses included integrating service records across operations. Both companies had come into their new corporate home with the same records management system, but there were challenges.

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- [About](https://www.dmasystems.ca/about) - People tend to make better decisions when they can use data to reduce uncertainty in the problem at hand. That's a lot of what measurement is about, and most of my professional life has centered around measurement data, helping people manage it, ensure its integrity, and gain insight to problems in Risk Management, Technology Management,
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