Reporting, KPI Reporting, Data-Analytics, Data-Virtualization Case Study on User Acceptance Testing (UAT) report which is an output of Executed test scripts/cases.

1. TRANSFORMING DATA INTO
USEFUL INFORMATION
Reporting
KPI Reporting
Data-Analytics
Data Virtualization
Case Study includes User Acceptance Testing (UAT) report which is an output of
executed test scripts/cases.

2. WHAT IS THE CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR ?
“Companies realizing that you can only improve what you can
measure is a good way to think about building a data- driven
culture, around the information that’s at the heart of today’s
business.”
 Often Companies want to improve different aspects of their business
all at once, but can’t put a finger on what will measure their progress
towards overarching company goals or even departmental goals.
 Does is come down to basing the decisions based on gut instinct;
 Or, decisions are based on facts i.e. using data
The good news is that in the business intelligence world, measuring
performance of the company/departments can be precise, quick and
easy.
But it requires more then just the good data and clear vision;-
 KPI is an important tool, &
 Meaningful Reports with Analysis.

3. KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATOR (KPI)
What is KPI
 A Key Performance Indicator (KPI)
is a measurable value that
demonstrates how effectively
a company is achieving
key business objectives.
 In other words a KPI represents a
strategic objective and metric that
measures performance against a
goal.
 Organizations use KPIs to
evaluate their success at reaching
targets.
 Once you've selected your
key business metrics, you will want
to track these KPIs in a real-
time reporting tool.
“90 percent of Companies fail
to execute their strategies”
As these Companies don’t have
a clear machoism to measure
the performance against each
goals or some cases no goals
are set….….

4. REPORTING :- CASE STUDY TO UNDERSTAND HOW TO
TRANSFORMING DATA INTO USEFUL INFORMATION
Project team comes up with the below data which covers :- Module; Test case for
each module; Tested by ; planned hrs; start & finish date; process type; pass ,fail,
pending.
In the below case there are more then 4 modules and 100 test cases
 Imagine a Company ABC is implementing a new software is at UAT
stage and it’s a Lumpsum project where vendor is only pushing for
one UAT cycle rather then having two UAT cycle;
 Project team should have test scripts and test plans ready before going into
UAT phrase.
 Once the test scripts are executed and tester needs to record results.
From the above excel screen shot, can top management take decision ?
Yes they can, as data can be broken into KPI’s which can be measured. But
top management will be spend more time in analyzing the data before
taking any decision.

5. Looking at the below report , top management can now take a
more educated decision based on the analysis provided in quick
time.

6. Prepared by :- Dharmesh Sheth
Senior Business Analyst,
Masters in Business and Management (MBM)- University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
Lean Six Sigma-Green Belt
Email :- dharmesh.sheth00@gmail.com
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