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• Contingency or re-baselining, what’s the difference?

  I’ve seen a few projects where customers said they didn’t need contingency, because they decided to adjust the budget as changes happen. How does this sound to you? To me, this sounds pretty bad, because there is an important distinction between adjusting... Published: Sunday, May 10, 2009, 04:22 PM Tags: Actual, Contingency, Baseline, Project management, Risk management, Budget, Cost

• Is an ERP implementation project just a project?

  “Software projects are no different from other projects”. This statement is being repeated over and over at project management courses and seminars, even endorsed in books. It’s true that software (and ERP implementation, as a subset of software) projects... Published: Sunday, April 05, 2009, 05:05 PM Tags: Implementation, ERP, Contingency, Project management, Risk, Schedule, Scope, PMBOK, Time, Success, Cost

• 5th rule of agile ERP: interface where possible

  One of the biggest absurdities about ERP systems springs from the very word we use so often when describing ERP: integrated . ERP is an integrated system: it integrates all data and processes into a single application. Different modules look over different... Published: Sunday, March 22, 2009, 05:00 PM Tags: Implementation, ERP, Add-on, Agile, Standalone, Customization, Integration, Value, Best practices, Interface, Cost

• Why is add-on better than custom, any day?

  Implementation is like marriage. For better or worse, you choose a piece of software, take it under your roof and commit to it for a long term, so help you God. And as in marriage, if you want to live happily ever after with your new software, the my... Published: Monday, February 16, 2009, 01:45 AM Tags: Technology, Quality, Economies of scale, Implementation, Dynamics NAV, ERP, Microsoft Dynamics, Add-on, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Customization, Support, Expertise, Business process, Time, Cost