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Just as...
Just as…
Just as playing a musical instrument or singing musically is far more important than playing or singing accurately (indeed, a friend of mine sings the right notes only rarely, and most of those accidentally, but his musicality is profound – imagine a male version of Florence Foster Jenkins), and just as a good consultant needn’t know anythingabout anything in particular (it’s more important that…
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systems@work Version 6 -We're Nearly There!
systems@work Version 6 -We’re Nearly There!
We hope to release systems@work Version 6 in the coming days/weeks. Today was the first day of the gradual release process – a first release of a pre-release version to me and to a few of my colleagues.
The next step will be the upgrade of our LLP Group system on Friday, so between now and then we must iron out the most alarming and noticeable bugs.
But I’m already pleased with what I see.
My…
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Power
I was intrigued by Forbes’ list of the 100 most powerful women in the world. Not only by who’s included, but also by what it purports to be. Sadly, I’ve heard of only five of the top ten:
Angela Merkel
Hillary Clinton
Janet Yellen
Melinda Gates
Christine Lagarde
The other five are business leaders but I have as much interest in the league of top businesses as I have in the Football Association…
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Announcing systems@work Version 6
Announcing systems@work Version 6
Version 5 of systems@work’s time@work, expense@work and forms@work was released at the end of 2015. It contained a number of enhancements, most of them enthusiastically received and put to use.
Version 6 will be released in early July. It seems soon for a new major release, but the radical revision of the browser-based Professional Services Workbench warrants it. Gone are the variously…
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Fixed Price and Agility
Fixed Price and Agility
I’ve come to love ‘agile’ systems implementation methods, and they are rightly fashionable in the nerdy circles in which I move.
But when I was trained on business software implementation methods many decades ago, I was told that it had to go like this:
find out what the customer wants, and write it all down,
get his sign-off on the requirements document,
design the system, and write it all down,
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I don't believe in the Cloud
I don’t believe in the Cloud
There, I’ve said it. I know it’s a heretical view, but I’m no follower of fashion, whether sartorial, gastronomic, linguistic or professional.
But it’s not a simple issue, and I will qualify my views very carefully.
I’m talking of course, of the IT Cloud, that somewhere-nowhere place where software and data are held for private or corporate use. I don’t doubt that it’s a safe, secure and…
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systems@work for Android
We’ve just launched our systems@work App for Android mobiles, so (with a little configuration and an upgrade to the central server application) our users all over the world can connect to their company’s systems@work database and submit and authorise forms through their Android mobiles.
It’s hard to find reliable statistics on relative market share for Android and iOS in the business sector…
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Keeping Up Appearances
Fashion can catch up with you without you even noticing it, until suddenly it’s nearly too late. I don’t mean skinny jeans, or leg warmers, or platform heels or first press extra virgin olive oil. Rather, I mean the way that software should look. What was modern and attractive five years ago looks worn and dated today.
Fashion creeps up on you gradually. At first there’s just a murmur, but as the…
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