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...
18 Pirmins Podcast Thought #18 Coca Cola is not Pepsi
Pirmin's Podcast : IT - ERP - Projects 33 years of experience - 99 thoughts, a weekly podcast
4 minutes
9 months ago
18 Pirmins Podcast Thought #18 Coca Cola is not Pepsi
#18Coca Cola is not Pepsi One difficult thing for people is to imagine similarity or mak-ing abstractions. A Cola beverage is mainly water, sugar (or substitute), color, flavor, CO2. (Some details missing ... don’t hate me for that). If you now discuss at Pepsi a software im-plementation where you use the (perfect) slides you made for a Coca Cola project, the audience will in 90 % of the cases complain that „We are not Coca Cola and all is different“. They can’t abstract that maki...
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...
