Project Management

Presented by Joe Belnap, Utah Valley University. 

A project is a unique effort with specific deliverables, a budget, and a definite beginning and end. Approximately 80% of projects either are canceled prior to completion or fail to meet the expected objectives upon implementation. While some projects fail for completely legitimate unforeseen circumstances, most fail from inadequate or incomplete project management. Project management is a discipline; a skill that must be learned before undertaking a project. Technical knowledge and native intelligence are not enough to ensure success. Projects must be defined, planned, and tracked with precision and diligence. Applying this methodology greatly improves the ability of completing projects on time and within budget. This course presents a complete, systematic process that will make the difference between success and failure. All aspects of Project Management are covered:

• Introduction of basic project management concepts and techniques
• Project Definition and Organization
• Project Planning
• Tracking and Managing the Project.

Evisions - Argos: Building a DataBlock and Report from the Ground Up

Presented by Evisions

Join the Evisions team and spend a day walking through the building of a DataBlock and Report from the ground up! This hands-on experience will cover: 

• How to create DataBlock and report specification (as well as best practices around combining existing DataBlocks and reports)
• Creating a DataBlock. We’ll also walk through many of Argos’s advance features and functionalities (e.g., using inline views, charting, and drill-through capabilities)
• Creating a crosstab report (New report type that was part of the v6.2 release!)

At the end of the day, participants will walk away with a greater understanding of Argos, along with a fully functioning baseline DataBlock. 

     Building a DataBlock Requirements: Argos DataBlock Designer experience is required to participate in the hands-on 

     portion. If you are new to Argos, and do not have DataBlock Designer experience, please feel free to sit in and follow 

     along. 

Page Builder Code Camp

Strata Information Group

Join CoHEsion and Strata Information Group for a Banner 9 Page Builder Code Camp! This session will allow you to get some experience working hands-on with Page Builder by introducing the tool, providing sample exercise, and offering help as needed. Or if you already have Page Builder experience, come work on a current project where you can get feedback and collaborate with others. This will not be a formal instructor-led training, but rather each participant can move at their own pace and work with each other to learn the tool, with a facilitator available to help if anyone gets stuck. 

     Page Builder Code Camp Requirements: You will use your college’s Page Builder instance during the session and must 

     bring your own laptop computer. Page Builder is part of Banner Extensibility, and we strongly recommend using version 

     9.2 or higher. You will be responsible for testing and ensuring your access is properly configured and available during the  

     Code Camp, including VPN, login/permissions for Banner Extensibility, and database access as needed for grants, 

     compiling code, etc. Information on how to test and verify this access will be provided ahead of time, and Wi-Fi will be 

     provided in the conference center. We will not be able to help troubleshoot application installation problems or login 

     problems on the day of the event.

Essential skills: Pl/SQL, Knowledge of Banner Database

Helpful skills: HTML, CSS< JavaScript, JSON, AngularJS

Oracle Database Performance Tuning

Presented by Sean Leahy, Texas A&M University. 

Acceptable performance of Ellucian Banner applications largely depends on an Oracle database that is performing at an acceptable level. Tuning the Oracle database to support the workload of Banner applications and custom processes is essential. This full day session will review the Oracle performance tuning method. We will review how to tune the database proactively and re-actively using Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM), Active Session History (ASH), and Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) snapshots.  We will cover SQL Tuning including object statistics, explain plans, concurrency issues, and how to tune and optimize SQL statements using the SQL Tuning Advisor and SQL Access Advisor.  We will look at using SQL profiles and SQL Plan baselines to prevent regression.  We will review Ellucian's recommendations for database performance.  We will also review on memory usage issues and memory structures, and database configuration issues including incorrect sizing of log files. Feel free to follow along with your own installation of Oracle Cloud Control.