These are the things
The IT Paw
can do for you and for your business
Business
Analysis
Finds the best solution
Makes the solution come true
Project
Management
Data
Analysis
Enables continuous improvement
Information Technology Services
The IT Paw offers business analysis, project management and data analysis services. Business analyst (BA), project manager (PM), and data analyst (DA) are critical roles in data-driven business and IT projects. These roles complete each other and share the same common goal: improving your business. They allow your company to grow and compete in today's market.
These three roles overlap, but their perspectives are different. A business analyst is mainly concerned about the solutions which improve your processes, products, services, and software. As the project manager is accountable for the project's success or failure, the project manager's perspective is building your solution in time, budget, and scope with high quality and satisfaction. A data analyst makes sense of your data and puts it in a format that makes your data-driven business decisions easy.
Business Analysis
Services
Business analysis services include but are not limited to outlining problems, opportunities, and solutions, creating business cases and detailed business analysis, determining requirements, transforming business requirements into functional and technical specifications, providing recommendations.
Business analysis is performed by applying Project Management Institute’s BA framework's domains and knowledge areas.
Project Management
Services
Project management services include but are not limited to recommending the best way to carry out the project (traditional, agile, hybrid), initiating, planning, executing, monitoring & controlling, and closing a project, creating necessary documentation.
Project management is performed by applying Project Management Institute’s project management / agile project management framework's domains and knowledge areas.
Data Analysis
Services
Data analysis services include but are not limited to helping you understand your business's current state, programming with Python, related libraries, and SQL, applying Machine Learning techniques, interpreting a wide range of data, and creating dashboards using Tableau and Power BI.
Data analysis is performed by applying the CRISP-DM methodology.
How The IT PAW works with you
Listen, plan, build, evaluate & improve are the generic steps that the IT PAW takes when working with you regardless of the role or solution.
The most common reason for project failure is a lack of clear goals. Therefore, the first step is to listen to your challenges, needs and goals carefully. Once there is a full understanding of the issue at hand, the goals are easier to set.
The next step is to plan the best solution to your current challenge. There is a saying that if the organization fails to plan, then they plan to fail. The IT PAW wants to avoid this.
The solution will then be created with necessary constraints in mind, such as time, schedule, and budget.
Finally, the IT PAW makes sure that the solution is solving the need or problem through evaluation. Also, the result will be assessed for future recommendations of how to improve the solution.
IT Project Survival Kits
Do we need documentation? Oh, yes, we do. No one can remember what the solution is all about or what needs to be done and by who in all the project phases. Templates are lifesavers.
The IT project survival kits encapsulate a long history of information technology experience. They include templates & tools for business analysis and project management. The purpose is to help anyone learn, understand, and carry out an IT project from start to finish.
The survival kits are perfect solutions for you who don’t have templates & tools to analyze and manage an IT project. All templates included in the kits are compatible and instructed. They adhere to the Project Management Institute (PMI) practices and processes. Even if you are not very keen to write documents, these kits help you understand what you need to have and do when planning and executing an IT project.
Business Analysis Survival Kit
Helps you to create the best solution
BA Survival Kit includes
BA knowledge areas explained
18 templates: Business Analysis Plan, BA Plan Presentation, Business Case, Business Case Presentation, Change Impact Assessment, Change Impact Scoring, Communication Plan, Functional Requirements Specification, IT Project - BA Perspective, Meeting Minutes, Project Charter, RACI Chart, Requirements Analysis Document, Stakeholder Register, Technical (Non-Functional) Requirements Specification, Traceability Matrix, Transition Plan, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
40 common BA tools and techniques with instructions
Project Management Survival Kit
Helps you to navigate from milestone to milestone
PM Survival Kit includes
PM knowledge areas explained
20 templates: Assumptions & Constrains Log, Change Log, Change Request Form, Communication Plan, Final Report, Implementation Plan, Issue Log, IT Project - PM Perspective, Lessons Learned Log, Meeting Minutes, Milestone Status Report, Project Charter, Project Management Plan, Progress Report with EVA, RACI Chart, Risk Log, Stakeholder Register, Team Charter, Weekly Status Report, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
30 common PM tools and techniques with instructions
...or maybe you just want to have them both for only
About The IT Paw
Hello, my name is Sirpa. This might come as a complete surprise, but I’m not a cat, nor I have paws. If you are not disappointed by this little fact, please keep reading, and I tell you my background information.
I'm an IT Professional with over 15 years of experience in the field. I have experience in every aspect of IT projects: programming, business analysis, project management, service management, and quality assurance. I have participated in software, infrastructure, and data projects. I have been leading co-located and virtual teams and managing agile, traditional, and hybrid projects. My strengths lie in leadership, attention to detail, self-motivation, and continuous learning and self-improvement.
I have a Master's in Computer Science and a Bachelor's in Business Administration. I am a Project Management Professional (PMP®), Scrum Master, and ITIL certified. My latest achievement is a Professional Certificate in IBM Data Science. I’m a lifelong learner with a variety of additional training under my belt.
Please, don’t hesitate to contact me if you need any help related to these areas.
Qualities
"It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer."
— Albert Einstein
"The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible."
— Winston Churchill
"Leaders instill in their people a hope for success and a belief in themselves. Positive leaders empower people to accomplish their goals."
— Unknown
"Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm."
— Earl Nightingale
"Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people."
— Dennis Prager
"You have more capability than you think you do but you will never see it unless you place a demand on yourself for more."
— Joyce Meyer
