Pirmin's Podcast : IT - ERP - Projects 33 years of experience - 99 thoughts, a weekly podcast
Pirmin Bercher
30 episodes
6 days 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...
Pirmin's Podcast : IT - ERP - Projects 33 years of experience - 99 thoughts, a weekly podcast
5 minutes
1 month ago
24 Pirmins Podcast thought # 24 Don’t over guide
# 24 Don’t over guide Typically “assistants” or user guided processes are needed in early phases of a project. Just like a step-by-step workflow, asking you questions, guiding you or offer pre-filled values. Most of these guided processes then include drop down lists to select something and then “click ok” go to next screen. In most cases, these assistants will have a lot of explanatory infor-mation. All this is good, if a process is either executed very few times or generally, the user is no...
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...
