Break Big tasks in to threes
I was at a business seminar where the instructor said, “Every task can be broken into three pieces; Inputs, Outputs, and Processes.” I have thought about this and would like to echo that with more emphasis on integration projects and tasks.
Integrations can be broken into these three pieces as well.
Input: Data that we get from outside whatever we are integrating. We can be getting orders from a third party company, or we can be talking about getting data from an account DB on another server in our office. In any case, and depending on the scope of our integration task we can define our inputs to be anything that is coming in externally to the product we are integrating.
Output: Data that we transmit, broadcast or convey to others. This can be our webpage, or orders we are sending to a vendor. In any case and depending on the scope of the integration task we define our outputs to be anything that comes out of the products we are integrating.
Processes: This is anything that we do to the data in-between input and output. Translating data format, calculations, collation of data, or anything else that you can do with it count as a Process.
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June 30th, 2010 at 8:39 am
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