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Top 5 qualities of a great Microsoft Dynamics consultant

Post author:Vjeko
Post published:December 5, 2008
Post category:Communication Consultant Creativity Dynamics Dynamics NAV Industry expertise Patience
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My last two posts have been a detour from my regular themes, into something that might remind you of human resources. I’ve explained what Microsoft Dynamics consultant does, and how it looks through phases of Sure Step implementation, and I promised to conclude this journey with explaining what I believe to be the 5 most important qualities every great Microsoft Dynamics application consultant must posses. So, here you go.

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Featuritis Cure

Post author:Vjeko
Post published:October 24, 2008
Post category:Dynamics NAV ERP Functionality Implementation Navision Technology Tips & Tricks
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Don’t you just love when users come up with new feature ideas at a microprocessor clock rate. Even before you finish developing one, five new requests pop up. This is a disease, and it’s called featuritis!

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Automated Version Management 2.0 – An Update

Post author:Vjeko
Post published:August 28, 2008
Post category:Dynamics Dynamics NAV ERP Implementation Navision Technology Tips & Tricks
Post comments:9 Comments

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I had to update this post a little bit, see below for the details, but the killer feature had to go 🙁
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Remeber that tool “Automated Version Management” that I published here and on Mibuso five months ago? It has just got an update: version 2.0.

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“Our old software” syndrome

Post author:Vjeko
Post published:August 1, 2008
Post category:Best practices Dynamics NAV ERP Implementation Navision Technology
Post comments:2 Comments

A few days back, while prototyping a new solution for a customer, one of the key users said: “But in our old software it didn’t work like that.” I was about to try to explain why the change, but then the user’s boss said:

– We aren’t implementing a new solution so that everything can stay the way it was.

How often does it happen to you that your customers say to you a similar thing: “But in our old system…”? What do you say to them? How do you approach change when your consultant proposes a new way of doing things, or a new approach to a common problem?

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Architectures: Good, Bad and Ugly

Post author:Vjeko
Post published:June 11, 2008
Post category:Dynamics NAV ERP Technology
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Four months ago I attended a conference, where I had a chance to listen to Miha Kralj, an architect at Microsoft, talk about architectures. It was one of the best presentations I ever attended, and ever since I had this topic in queue, but never really had chance to write about it. Most of the stuff he talked about reminded me of some bad experiences about architectures on projects I’ve worked on. Most of stuff here is also not my original contribution to the universal pool of knowledge, and I reuse it with the permission of the author, so Miha, thanks! What I did, however, is that I applied general principles to specific Microsoft Dynamics NAV situations.

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