Notable Quotes
Equity Trading
Project Deliverables
ETP Consolidation and Refactoring
Project Success Factors
100
"Go ahead. make my day!"
Who is Clint Eastwood / Dirty Harry?
100
Shares in large publicly traded companies are bought and sold through one of these.
What are major stock exchanges?
100
It's hard to get to your goal if you don't have one.
What is a Project Plan?
100
21 months
What is the duration of the project?
100
Tightly tracking the work to be completed while allowing change only after approval.
What is scope management / change control?
200
"You rang?"
Who is Lurch from the Addams Family?
200
Agents are paid this for performing the trade.
What is a commission?
200
Contains items that must be resolved or negative consequences are likely to result.
What is an Issue Log?
200
$xM
What is the project budget?
200
Ensuring that each project team member meets their commitments.
What is accountability?
300
"I love it when a plan comes together."
Who is John "Hannibal" Smith (George Peppard) from the A-Team?
300
Major stock exchanges have these to help limit price variation (volatility) by buying and selling a particular company's shares on their own behalf and also on behalf of other clients.
What are 'market makers'?
300
Project team members and senior management are equally interested in this information about a project.
What is a Status Report?
300
$x-$xM
What is expected annual savings after implementation.
300
Aligning the project with its intended audience or recipient, making sure it meets their needs and is accepted, adopted and supportable.
What is business/customer focus?
400
"Come on down!"
Who is Johnny Olson from The Price is Right?
400
Stock shares in smaller public companies are bought and sold in these.
Over-the-counter (OTC) markets.
400
Contains 'everything you need to know' about a project.
What is a Project Charter?
400
Where all enhancement requests will go to be completed AFTER the project.
What is the backlog?
400
Making sure that you have the appropriate representation from Business, IT and Delivery and know how to escalate.
What is project governance?
500
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
Who is Albert Einstein?
500
Buying and selling for the trader's own profit or loss.
What is proprietary trading?
500
Conveys items that may or may not occur along with their likelihood and impact.
What is a Risk Mitigation Plan?
500
A single equity trading application that contains functionality present in the existing applications resulting in a more modular and flexible application better able to deliver future business functionality quickly and at lower costs with significant performance increases for the tier one system functionality (phew!).
What is the future state vision?
500
If it's there and you can see it, it's visible. If it's there and you can't see it, it's transparent. If it's not there and you can see it, it's virtual. If it's not there and you can't see it, it's ...
What is gone?
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