Using Code-Swarms as a developer KPI

If You are developer in a company that doesn’t involve software development as its main product or line of business: Then you must be suffering from time to time about reporting your work and communicating the efforts you make as KPIs.

Everyone has to provide monthly ,dull and boring charts and tables KPIs showing the amount of work they did, begging for attention about their work.

Somehow developers lack the artistic and eye-catching way to present their work.

Well I propose to use “Code Swarms” to show your development effort in the projects you work on.

gourcing git project

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Visualize your Data with GraphViz

Ever wanted to visualize your  database information ?

here is a quick answer:

SQL –> XML –> XSL trasnformation–> DOT –> GraphViz –> JPEG/PDF

I work theses days with Siebel CRM system.  It is very configurable in how you want to store your data and display them.

One thing about Siebel Configuration, is that you can overload one table with multiple entities.  Each Siebel customization could be different in how you organize your entities into tables. So I had a problem in really understanding how the system was developed. Cases like which type of records link to which entities in the same table or other tables.

I was looking for someway to visualize Entity relation based on the data that is there in the Database -I’m not talking about Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD)- I’m talking about how certain customers relate to each others and to their addresses.

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