Crystal Reports A Complete Guide - 2020 Edition
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Crystal Reports A Complete Guide - 2020 Edition - Gerardus Blokdyk
Crystal Reports
Complete Self-Assessment Guide
The guidance in this Self-Assessment is based on Crystal Reports best practices and standards in business process architecture, design and quality management. The guidance is also based on the professional judgment of the individual collaborators listed in the Acknowledgments.
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The Art of Service, Business Process Architects since 2000, is dedicated to helping stakeholders achieve excellence.
Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a stakeholders challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department.
Unless you’re talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions.
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You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria:
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•The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard, and...
•Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation
•In-depth specific Checklists covering the topic
•Project management checklists and templates to assist with implementation
INCLUDES LIFETIME SELF ASSESSMENT UPDATES
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Purpose of this Self-Assessment
This Self-Assessment has been developed to improve understanding of the requirements and elements of Crystal Reports, based on best practices and standards in business process architecture, design and quality management.
It is designed to allow for a rapid Self-Assessment to determine how closely existing management practices and procedures correspond to the elements of the Self-Assessment.
The criteria of requirements and elements of Crystal Reports have been rephrased in the format of a Self-Assessment questionnaire, with a seven-criterion scoring system, as explained in this document.
In this format, even with limited background knowledge of Crystal Reports, a manager can quickly review existing operations to determine how they measure up to the standards. This in turn can serve as the starting point of a ‘gap analysis’ to identify management tools or system elements that might usefully be implemented in the organization to help improve overall performance.
How to use the Self-Assessment
On the following pages are a series of questions to identify to what extent your Crystal Reports initiative is complete in comparison to the requirements set in standards.
To facilitate answering the questions, there is a space in front of each question to enter a score on a scale of ‘1’ to ‘5’.
1 Strongly Disagree
2 Disagree
3 Neutral
4 Agree
5 Strongly Agree
Read the question and rate it with the following in front of mind:
‘In my belief,
the answer to this question is clearly defined’.
There are two ways in which you can choose to interpret this statement;
1.how aware are you that the answer to the question is clearly defined
2.for more in-depth analysis you can choose to gather evidence and confirm the answer to the question. This obviously will take more time, most Self-Assessment users opt for the first way to interpret the question and dig deeper later on based on the outcome of the overall Self-Assessment.
A score of ‘1’ would mean that the answer is not clear at all, where a ‘5’ would mean the answer is crystal clear and defined. Leave emtpy when the question is not applicable or you don’t want to answer it, you can skip it without affecting your score. Write your score in the space provided.
After you have responded to all the appropriate statements in each section, compute your average score for that section, using the formula provided, and round to the nearest tenth. Then transfer to the corresponding spoke in the Crystal Reports Scorecard on the second next page of the Self-Assessment.
Your completed Crystal Reports Scorecard will give you a clear presentation of which Crystal Reports areas need attention.
Crystal Reports
Scorecard Example
Example of how the finalized Scorecard can look like:
Crystal Reports
Scorecard
Your Scores:
BEGINNING OF THE
SELF-ASSESSMENT:
Table of Contents
About The Art of Service7
Included Resources - how to access7
Purpose of this Self-Assessment9
How to use the Self-Assessment10
Crystal Reports
Scorecard Example12
Crystal Reports
Scorecard13
BEGINNING OF THE
SELF-ASSESSMENT:14
CRITERION #1: RECOGNIZE15
CRITERION #2: DEFINE:27
CRITERION #3: MEASURE:43
CRITERION #4: ANALYZE:58
CRITERION #5: IMPROVE:73
CRITERION #6: CONTROL:89
CRITERION #7: SUSTAIN:101
Crystal Reports and Managing Projects, Criteria for Project Managers:127
1.0 Initiating Process Group: Crystal Reports128
1.1 Project Charter: Crystal Reports130
1.2 Stakeholder Register: Crystal Reports132
1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: Crystal Reports133
2.0 Planning Process Group: Crystal Reports135
2.1 Project Management Plan: Crystal Reports137
2.2 Scope Management Plan: Crystal Reports139
2.3 Requirements Management Plan: Crystal Reports141
2.4 Requirements Documentation: Crystal Reports143
2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix: Crystal Reports145
2.6 Project Scope Statement: Crystal Reports147
2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log: Crystal Reports149
2.8 Work Breakdown Structure: Crystal Reports151
2.9 WBS Dictionary: Crystal Reports153
2.10 Schedule Management Plan: Crystal Reports155
2.11 Activity List: Crystal Reports157
2.12 Activity Attributes: Crystal Reports159
2.13 Milestone List: Crystal Reports161
2.14 Network Diagram: Crystal Reports163
2.15 Activity Resource Requirements: Crystal Reports165
2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure: Crystal Reports167
2.17 Activity Duration Estimates: Crystal Reports169
2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet: Crystal Reports171
2.19 Project Schedule: Crystal Reports173
2.20 Cost Management Plan: Crystal Reports175
2.21 Activity Cost Estimates: Crystal Reports177
2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet: Crystal Reports179
2.23 Cost Baseline: Crystal Reports181
2.24 Quality Management Plan: Crystal Reports183
2.25 Quality Metrics: Crystal Reports185
2.26 Process Improvement Plan: Crystal Reports187
2.27 Responsibility Assignment