It seems like yesterday that I was posting about this last time, but time does run fast. And so do technology and innovation. Decisions virtual conference is here again, this time in its Fall 2010 edition, bringing a lot of fantastic content split into four separate tracks (AX, GP, NAV and CRM) delivered over four days, starting with November 1. For me, and I believe you too, the most important day is the NAV day, which will be delivered on November 3.
Design is one of a kind. Other phases in Sure Step are understood and accepted as good and necessary. But design, do we really do that? Is it really necessary? Who’s going to pay for it? Does the customer really need all those documents? Instead of writing documents, you could have it developed in the same, or less time. And so on and so forth.
As a matter of fact, if you asked me to pick one single most important phase in a Sure Step project, then it’s the design. No second thoughts here, whatsoever.
Here I list the ten most important reasons that I believe make design absolutely indispensable.
Are you aware of the Special Offers on Microsoft Learning Products? Well, you should be: Microsoft Learning website offers many fantastic bargains. There are two specific offers I’d like you…
We old dogs really have to learn new tricks with RTC (RoleTailored Client), as I found out couple of days ago. A customer of mine asked me for a quick report. I don’t typically do reports, but I thought—“not a big deal, it’s just a report”—so I fixed it, tested it, made sure it worked, then deployed it to production.
And then I found out it was not just a report.
It just didn’t want to execute in production. Whatever I did I just got a strange error message, something I never saw before. Ever.
“Perfect is the enemy of good”, a smart person said once. Another one said: “If it works, don’t mess with it.” So, I messed with it. I was trying to…