Navigate Into Success

Requirements and Process Review – Critical vs. Non Critical

Navigate Into Success — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:52:57 GMT

Requirements and process review is one of the decision accelerators in the Diagnostic phase of the Sure Step, aimed at gaining deeper understanding of customer’s business processes, and documenting high level requirements, as well as possible implementation...(read more)

Fit Gap and Solution Blueprint Estimates

Navigate Into Success — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:31:47 GMT

The Sure Step season seems to have started in its fullest for me – it is the second time this year already that I’m delivering the Sure Step course, this time in Copenhagen, Denmark, and I must say that I truly enjoy it. Anyway, while discussing the Fit...(read more)

Decisions Spring 2010

Navigate Into Success — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:13:07 GMT

After successful Decisions NAV 2009 and Decisions AX 2009 virtual conferences, MSDynamicsWorld.com has went for it once again, this time expanding the conference to cover full range of Microsoft Dynamics products, and merging it into a single event. If...(read more)

Sure Step 2010

Navigate Into Success — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:12:34 GMT

One of the drawbacks of being a freelancer is a slight risk to learn a bit late about anything new. Once upon a time, when I was still blogging actively, I made sure I was the first to blog about something new, as long as it relates to Sure Step. This...(read more)

Microsoft Dynamics for Manufacturing – differences between various Dynamics flavors

Navigate Into Success — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:53:45 GMT

Houston Neal from Manufacturing Software Advice recently wrote a nice and a very detailed article on the Differences Between Microsoft Dynamics products. It’s an interesting article and gives a good overview of where different Microsoft Dynamics products...(read more)

Parallel or serial?

Navigate Into Success — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:17:06 GMT

Long time no see, eh? I know I’ve promised to write about a lot of stuff here, and I see this queue of you hardly waiting to read my next topic on process manufacturing, but I am just far too lazy to think it out thoroughly. So, an easier one, but still...(read more)

NAV Decisions 2009 is over, but not quite

Navigate Into Success — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:12:35 GMT

Did you have a chance to attend the NAV Decisions 2009 virtual conference? If yes, how did you like the event? To me, this was a great experience. It wasn’t the first virtual conference I was a part of, but it most certainly was the best. But if you didn...(read more)

NAV Decisions – an event you should NOT miss

Navigate Into Success — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 06:35:34 GMT

On October 14th you should not miss the NAV Decisions 2009 virtual conference organized by MSDynamicsWorld.com , the independent authority for news and views on Microsoft Dynamics. NAV Decisions 2009 is a virtual conference & tradeshow for Microsoft...(read more)

My new career path – independent consultant

Navigate Into Success — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:08:11 GMT

It’s official now, and it’s time I announce it here: after two years at Microsoft I’ve decided to take the helm of my career and venture into the realm of independent consulting. Two days into it, and all I can say about it is: what have I been waiting...(read more)

ERP and Business Processes: a new book

Navigate Into Success — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:39:54 GMT

There is a new book available about ERP business practices. It is titled “ ERP and business processes ” and is written by Hans van der Hoeven, MSc, a senior lecturer in ERP, Business Management and Accounting at Avans University of Applied Sciences in...(read more)

Sure Step available to all partners

Navigate Into Success — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:20:52 GMT

Today at Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans, during his keynote speech, Doug Kennedy, Vice President Dynamics Partner Team, announced the availability of Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step to all Microsoft Dynamics partners. So far, Sure Step has only...(read more)

I’m back

Navigate Into Success — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:40:22 GMT

It hit me hard today when I realized how long it has been since I last wrote something here. More than a month since my last post, slightly more since anything barely useful. I’ve been trying to write a new post for a while now, and today I just found...(read more)

Discreet and process manufacturing difference

Navigate Into Success — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:28:22 GMT

When implementing NAV in manufacturing companies, I’ve sometimes heard complaints that the type of manufacturing supported in NAV doesn’t fit the customer needs. And sometimes that’s completely true. NAV supports discreet manufacturing, and it handles...(read more)

Two years of Navigate Into Success

Navigate Into Success — Sun, 24 May 2009 20:57:52 GMT

Can you believe it? I can’t. Almost. Two years ago I started this blog as a hobby, and I myself didn’t believe it would work out. It was months before the first reader appeared, but then it kind of just happened. Blogging was fun. It was tough. It was...(read more)

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

Navigate Into Success — Sun, 10 May 2009 23:22:29 GMT

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...(read more)

IT Knowledge Exchange

Navigate Into Success — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:05:00 GMT

Blogs are a great thing. They allow people to share their own knowledge, experience, thoughts, ideas. But communities are the real thing, they allow many people do the same at once, expanding the sharing into exchanging knowledge, experience, thoughts...(read more)

NAV blogosphere in April

Navigate Into Success — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:05:00 GMT

April. There is definitely something upside down with this month. I’ve started it with a somewhat ambitious decision to blog a post a day. And it worked. Kind of. For the first eight days, anyway. And then it happened. Suddenly I’ve found myself blogging...(read more)

My book featured on MSDynamicsWorld.com

Navigate Into Success — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:57:16 GMT

MSDynamicsWorld.com has just posted an excerpt from my friend Dave’s and my book Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009, delivering some content from chapter 4, focusing on the implementation process. The Chapter 4 draws a lot of its content from Sure...(read more)

Do you need contingency reserve?

Navigate Into Success — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:41:14 GMT

If projects were completely predictable, there would be no need for risk management . Everything could be planned and executed according to plan. However, we know better. Unexpected things happen, disrupt the original plans and cause time and cost overruns...(read more)

My WinDays9 presentation online

Navigate Into Success — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:05:00 GMT

WinDays9 is over, thank you all who attended my presentation “What’s new in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009”. I hope it was worth your time. For all you lucky ones, I hope you liked the book! I would prefer if I had enough of them to give you each a copy...(read more)

Panorama ERP diagnostic and Assessment

Navigate Into Success — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:05:00 GMT

Panorama Consulting Group , the authors of the ERP report , have just made available two interesting tools: ERP Quick Diagnostic, and ERP Readiness Assessment. According to their website, if you are “in the early stages of selecting a new ERP software...(read more)

WinDays9: see you in Opatija next week!

Navigate Into Success — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:05:00 GMT

Often you don’t even notice how quickly time goes by, except for a few milestones, which happen once a year and remind you that another one’s over. WinDays conference is one of such milestones, and I’ve barely published a handful of posts here since the...(read more)

Panorama’s ERP report, part III

Navigate Into Success — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:05:00 GMT

I’ve just got the news about Part III of Panorama’s ERP Report in my inbox. If you missed my analysis of the report , please read it first: part three builds on findings of the first two. I know that I am biased when writing about this, but how can I...(read more)

What’s a project plan?

Navigate Into Success — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:05:00 GMT

Project plan. A fancy term we all like to use. But believe it or not, most of us don’t even know what a project plan really is. I don’t know why, how and when it came to be that in IT we started using the term project plan , but whatever the origin, the...(read more)

Hollywood Secrets of Project Management Success: a review of a sort

Navigate Into Success — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:15:00 GMT

Take that project you are currently running, and imagine, just for a second, that it came with only 3% budget overrun. Most of people in software industry would call it wild success. In motion picture industry, however, trampling measly 2% or 3% over...(read more)