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2. How to gain experience with DIY Projects
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4. Webinar Goal
Provide guidance on how to gain experience with our DIY Projects.

5. Webinar agenda:
What is needed to get a job?
How to get real project experience without a job?
Introduction to DIY Projects.
Project Life cycle.
Preparing for DIY Project.
Summary
Q&As

6. What is needed to get a job?
You need to meet minimum requirements for:
Knowledge
Skill
Experience
Attitude
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7. Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Knowledge x Skills x Experience = Your Value
8 x 4 x 0.5* = 16
1 x 0.5* x 8 = 4
4 x 4 x 3 = 48
*below minimum

8. What is knowledge? (Related to SQL and BI)
Knowledge is the theoretical or practical understanding of a tool (e.g SSIS) or a programming language (T-SQL).
Knowledge helps to:
Identify ways to achieve a task (awareness).
Provides more options.
Helps you with Google Search
Not having knowledge means:
Knowing what you know may feel like 90% about the tool but in reality may only be 2%

9. What is skill? (Related to SQL and BI)
Skill is acquired trough practice (using your knowledge) and allows you to complete a task (“Know-how”).
Skill allows you to:
Identify steps needed to complete a task.
Complete a task.
Complete a task efficiently.
Not having skill means:
Not able to complete a task using a particular tool on time or to high standards.

10. What is experience? (Related to SQL and BI)
Experience is a task or a project completed in the past that helped you to gain new knowledge or improve skills.
Experience helps you to:
Utilize better your skills and knowledge.
Choose better options quickly.
Plan ahead and avoid obstacles (Quality).
Make accurate predictions (What will happen).
Gain confidence (more relaxed, motivated).
Not having experience means:
Not able to understand “big picture”
Getting stuck, becoming frustrated.

11. When we gain experience?
When we follow step by step instruction (low)
When we practice (medium)
When we apply our skills to a project (high)

12. Why you need project experience?
To fastest way to get a job is to prove to the potential employer that you know how to practically apply your skills and knowledge and deliver on time, to high standards.
Project experience helps you:
Understand life cycle (“big picture”)
Identify all critical tasks.
Estimate more accurately effort.
Deal with obstacles and issues.
Measure your current skills and knowledge.
Build confidence.
Become self-sufficient (very important).

13. How to get real project experience?
Create a real life project yourself! (or use DIY Projects)
Examples:
Finance
Improve control over your own finances.
Cut spending without losing quality.
Time Management
Improve control over your own time.
Improve quality of your life by spending time on what matters to you.
Health
Lose weight or improve eating habits.

14. Introduction to DIY Projects
DIY Projects aim to:
Help you gain valuable project experience.
Understand “big picture”.
Boost your confidence.
Help you find weak points and improve them.
Improve your skills (next time will be faster).
Give you technical freedom (T-SQL, BI Stack, Excel BI)
Focus on “must known” in order to deliver.
Our DIY Project provide you with:
Overview (pre-requisites)
Business Case
Design Options.
We will provide more details later on.

15. Project Initiation Phase
Business Case
Planning
Justification
Releases
Speculations

16. Split project into releases

17. BI Project Lifecycle (Release)
Business Case Assessment
Release Evaluation
Infrastructure Evaluation
Implementation
Requirements Definition
Development
Project Planning
ETL Design
Data Analysis
Database Design
Prototyping

18. DIY Project: My finance
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19. Summary
Discussed importance of experience
Overview of DIY Projects
Discuss Project Lifecycle
Discussed DIY Project: My Finances

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