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Blog Post:
Microsoft releases Sure Step 2012
Vjeko
A couple of days ago, at a Sure Step 2010 training at Sundsgården, Helsingborg, Sweden, while students were preparing to take the exam, one of the students asks me where she can download Sure Step 2010. I give her the link, but she tells me: “No, that’s Sure Step 2012, I’d like to download 2010” . ...
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11 Nov 2011
Blog Post:
Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step 2010 Content Update
Vjeko
I missed this by ten days, but it’s not exactly yesterday’s news yet. Microsoft has released a content update for Sure Step 2010, bringing some new content for NAV, AX, GP and CRM, and also introducing some functional changes to Sure Step application. Here’s what’s new in the latest release: GP 2010...
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8 Nov 2010
Blog Post:
Adriatics Community Launched
Anonymous
Thanks you all, who participated in yesterday’s Microsoft Dynamics Community Adriatics launch event in Zagreb. I’m sorry that Live Meeting equipment could not be set-up in the Microsoft’s big conference room, but I was promised that in the future maybe something could be done. I hope it doesn’t mean...
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5 Oct 2010
Blog Post:
Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step 2010: RAW
Anonymous
I woke up this morning with a fantastic news in my mailbox: Chandru’s and Vincent’s upcoming book Microsoft Dynamics NAV Sure Step 2010 is already available at PACKT Publishing’s web site in a format I wasn’t even aware it existed: RAW (Read As we Write). The book isn’t finished yet, but you can already...
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28 Sep 2010
Blog Post:
7 Sure Steps to pass the Sure Step exam
Anonymous
Another Sure Step course is over, this time in Århus, Denmark . I love and hate teaching this course, because it always makes me wonder why I need this, and why in the Earth I am doing this trainer’s job. And then makes me happy that I do and eager to do it again as soon as possible. It also teaches...
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24 Sep 2010
Blog Post:
Adriatics Dynamics Community
Anonymous
It’s the second “me too” today. Waldo has started the day with announcing the new season of the Belgian Dynamics Community , which was me-too-ed by Marq announcing the Dutch Dynamics Community . It’s my turn now to me-too the announcement of the Adriatics Dynamics Community. Three community announcements...
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23 Sep 2010
Blog Post:
Solution overview: hablamos tutti die gleiche language?
Anonymous
One of the biggest obstacles of the ERP projects is the language. Not the spoken language, such as Spanish or German, but the lingo of the business, of the branch, of the company. The consultants speak their lingo. The customer speaks theirs. Especially in the early stages, the projects can fall apart...
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23 Sep 2010
Blog Post:
Sure Step or Sure Wheel?
Anonymous
Almost exactly two years ago, incited by a comment from a reader, I wrote an article in defense of Sure Step: Read My Lips: Why? . The point was: is Sure Step a new methodology, or is it just a wheel reinvented? After having taught about a dozen of Sure Step courses all over Europe (and just preparing...
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22 Sep 2010
Blog Post:
10 reasons that make design absolutely necessary
Anonymous
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...
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13 Sep 2010
Blog Post:
Sure Step in action: business process change
Anonymous
Service Providers (or colloquially partners ) often refrain from undertaking organization or process changes during implementation projects of Microsoft Dynamics solutions. And it comes as no surprise: there are many risks related to it, and customizations are taken as a more traditional approach. ...
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30 Aug 2010
Blog Post:
Sure Step in action: a blurry Degree of Fit?
Anonymous
Tweet Sometimes the Degree of Fit might seem like comparing apples and oranges. With 90 extremely detailed fits, and 10 high-level gaps, the degree of fit seems high, but it isn’t. 90 extremely detailed gaps, and 10 high-level fits, make the degree of fit seem low. In either case the degree of fit is...
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26 Aug 2010
Blog Post:
Sure Step Proficiency Assessment
Anonymous
Many of my Sure Step students have asked me if there are any practice tests, like MeasaureUp, available for Sure Step exam (MB5-858). I used to say “no”, but that has just changed. I somehow missed this, and I am not exactly sure when it appeared, but there is an online knowledge assessment tool which...
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25 Aug 2010
Blog Post:
4 strategies for a favorable Degree of Fit
Anonymous
If your Degree of Fit is just not there, or the balance between it and the budgetary estimate is not favorable, the risk that project will exceed the budget or not meet the requirements is high, but you might still decide to go on. In fact, most consultants often do, choosing to fight the odds. According...
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24 Aug 2010
Blog Post:
Sure Step in action: more about Fit Gap Analysis
Anonymous
Fit Gap Analysis is one of the core activities of the Sure Step. It’s in fact so important that on most projects this activity should be done twice: the first time you do it on a very high level just get a quick overview of customer’s processes and requirements, and the second time you dive deep down...
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23 Aug 2010
Blog Post:
When Does Waterfall Work Well?
Anonymous
Today I’ve completed delivering the Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step course in Belgrade, Serbia, and I totally enjoyed it. The discussions were great, there was a lot of experience accumulated in that room, and all of the thirteen people attending the training were participating and contributing knowledge...
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1 May 2010
Blog Post:
Requirements and Process Review – Critical vs. Non Critical
Anonymous
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 issues. As such, it is an indispensable input...
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12 Mar 2010
Blog Post:
Fit Gap and Solution Blueprint Estimates
Anonymous
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 Gap and Solution Blueprint decision accelerator...
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11 Mar 2010
Blog Post:
Sure Step 2010
Anonymous
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 time, the news came to me through two channels: through...
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22 Dec 2009
Blog Post:
NAV Decisions – an event you should NOT miss
Anonymous
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 Dynamics NAV Professionals seeking implementation...
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19 Sep 2009
Blog Post:
Sure Step available to all partners
Anonymous
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 been available to partners enrolled in a service...
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14 Jul 2009
Blog Post:
My book featured on MSDynamicsWorld.com
Anonymous
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 Step best practices, and the fact that MSDynamicsWorld...
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30 Apr 2009
Blog Post:
Sure Step Spring 2009 release
Anonymous
Microsoft’s Sure Step team has been pretty busy recently. They have just published the new update to Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step methodology, which includes several important new features and many content updates worth your attention. I’ve just downloaded and installed it and I am impressed with the...
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2 Apr 2009
Blog Post:
March 2009: Sure Step, Agile and Dinosaurs
Anonymous
Another one’s down, so let me give it a quick glance over my shoulder before I move on: March 2009. This was the best month ever for this blog: it has seen most posts from me, most visits from you, most subscribers to the feed , and I’ve covered a wide range of topics which I am not yet sure if it...
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1 Apr 2009
Blog Post:
5 steps to implement ERP the Agile way
Anonymous
In my previous post I’ve (what, again?) shared some statistics about success and failure rates of software projects in general and ERP projects specifically. It seems that ERP projects fare somewhat worse than generic software projects, which I stated might have a lot to do with how requirements are...
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15 Mar 2009
Blog Post:
How you should learn from Sure Step
Anonymous
Prescriptive methodologies, such as Sure Step, are double-edged swords. They are aimed at increasing repeatability, consistency, traceability, manageability and more of your projects, yet they seemingly increase overhead and contribute to an inflated project price tag. As a result, companies sometimes...
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8 Mar 2009
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