Pirmin's Podcast : IT - ERP - Projects 33 years of experience - 99 thoughts, a weekly podcast
Pirmin Bercher
30 episodes
1 week ago
# 29 Don‘t waste time in technology This is the opposite of „let technology do the job“. Sometimes we tend to make everything automated or system driven. There are cases where you need to think about it. Does it make sense to spend 2 days in preparing a data upload, testing when you only have to upload 10 records and can type this in in 1 h? Is the data cleansing more time consuming to prepare an upload file than training a human to do the job? It’s like always a fully unscript...
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# 29 Don‘t waste time in technology This is the opposite of „let technology do the job“. Sometimes we tend to make everything automated or system driven. There are cases where you need to think about it. Does it make sense to spend 2 days in preparing a data upload, testing when you only have to upload 10 records and can type this in in 1 h? Is the data cleansing more time consuming to prepare an upload file than training a human to do the job? It’s like always a fully unscript...
14 Pirmins Podcast Thought #14 If plan “A” fails, the alphabet has 25 other letters
Pirmin's Podcast : IT - ERP - Projects 33 years of experience - 99 thoughts, a weekly podcast
5 minutes
1 year ago
14 Pirmins Podcast Thought #14 If plan “A” fails, the alphabet has 25 other letters
# 14 If plan “A” fails, the alphabet has 25 other letters As mentioned in „A Plan is a Plan“, things can go wrong and will go wrong. (Remember Murphy’s laws) Most likely failure will happen the moment where it’s either completely unex-pected or most critical. A good thing to anticipate that, is to have a draft version of a backup / failure plan. This does not mean to have a detailed version of it, but having this in mind or drafted will help you to focus again if there is a major change...
Pirmin's Podcast : IT - ERP - Projects 33 years of experience - 99 thoughts, a weekly podcast
# 29 Don‘t waste time in technology This is the opposite of „let technology do the job“. Sometimes we tend to make everything automated or system driven. There are cases where you need to think about it. Does it make sense to spend 2 days in preparing a data upload, testing when you only have to upload 10 records and can type this in in 1 h? Is the data cleansing more time consuming to prepare an upload file than training a human to do the job? It’s like always a fully unscript...
