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Default database approach

Last Friday, while enjoying a not-at-all healthy Salisbury steak with cheese, I had an interesting discussion with a partner: should NAV consultancies create default databases? A default database (in this context) is a packaged solution built upon standard Microsoft Dynamics NAV, where a consultancy...

Posted to Navigate Into Success (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-11-2008
Featuritis Cure

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 ! Featuritis doesn’t mean the features are just sporadically requested and developed...

Posted to Navigate Into Success (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-24-2008
Error Message when using the Style Sheet Tool for Microsoft Dynamics NAV

I am working with the style sheet program to create MS Word based reports. I get the following message: The call to member Add failed. Microsoft Word returned the following message: The Add method or property is not available for this document is in another application Has anyone come across this message...

Posted to Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Forum) by Gerrycan on 10-09-2008
Read My Lips: Why?

Recently, a reader, commenting on my last post about Sure Step , pointed me to an article by Karl E. Wiegers “Read My Lips: No New Models!” I initially responded to the comment, but I figure the comments aren’t read as often as posts, so I decided to blog it. It’s doubly funny...

Posted to Navigate Into Success (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-23-2008
Diagnostic Phase – a signpost for implementation

Each phase of Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step methodology is equally important in an implementation project. You could argue that analysis is the most important, or that design is the most important, or that operation is less important. I’ll paraphrase Scott Adams here and ask: how one phase can be...

Posted to Navigate Into Success (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-18-2008
A case for Sure Step: how Sure Step brings project success

Methodology is a tough topic. There are good methodologies, there are bad methodologies, there are good methodologies gone bad. Methodology is not a silver bullet, it won’t just make any problems disappear, and is hardly ever the single source of success or failure. But a methodology can be a major...

Posted to Navigate Into Success (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-11-2008
Automated Version Management 2.0 - An Update

[Updated] I had to update this post a little bit, see below for the details, but the killer feature had to go [/Updated] 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. First, a disclaimer: THIS...

Posted to Navigate Into Success (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-27-2008
Warehouse Management quickie

I’ve just got a call for help from a partner, about their customer who has decided to move from basic inventory management to full-scale warehouse management system. The question was how to post the opening balances for existing inventory quantities in flat locations to warehouse-managed ones....

Posted to Navigate Into Success (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-27-2008
“Our old software” syndrome

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...

Posted to Navigate Into Success (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-01-2008
Serial Numbers Conundrum

A blog reader has asked me for help about an allegedly strange behavior of items with serial number tracking. They had a customer who had serial number tracking switched on for an item with FIFO costing method. Whenever they posted a sales transaction, they chose the serial number manually. Then they...

Posted to Navigate Into Success (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-24-2008

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