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I am the author of "IT - ERP - Projects 33 years of experience - 99 thoughts - 66 minutes to read: Not Another How To Book" Available on amazon  (check your local amazon for faster / cheaper delivery!) or check http://www.pibeco.com/book  Some of the feedbacks I got were the wish for more details / more explications on the individual thoughts.  I'll take that challenge and will create a weekly short podcast on all major medias and video cast on YouTube.  It will be published on fridays, each episode starting with the lecture of one thought and then a brief explain / idea / experience behind. The podcasts will be 5-10 min.  If you like .. share and forward ! If you want to get in touch with me, check on LinkedIn ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/pirminbercher/ )  or via www.pibeco.comIf you liked .. spread the news !If you can’t wait for next week www.pibeco.com/bookIf you want to support me coindrop.to/Pirmin or  www.buymeacoffee.com/pirmin Have fun ! Greets  Pirmin  

  1. 6D 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 not trained. If they are rou-tine tasks, make sure the user does not need to click a drop down and search there; he will know what to enter.  This click and search slows him down.  Especially when you have a kind of stable business structure, the daily worker will know much more by heart than you think. When they need to use an assistant to create a purchase order, they will go nuts, or go through 3 drop down menus and drill to the end. They know all the steps by heart and often they even have the vendor number and item-numbers in mind! If they can just type straight forward, they are more efficient. Searching in an endless drop down list by scrolling down takes ages! But it does help untrained users. It’s like always a fully unscripted recording !  Happy to get your feedbacks!  If you liked .. spread the news ! If you can’t wait for next week www.pibeco.com/book If you want to support me coindrop.to/Pirmin or  www.buymeacoffee.com/pirmin IT - ERP - Projects 33 years of experience - 99 thoughts - 66 minutes to read: Not Another How To Book, available on Amazon.  Support the show www.pibeco.com/book

    6 min

  2. OCT 3

    23 Pirmins Podcast thought # 23 Digital s**t does not smell… That’s all

    # 23 Digital s**t does not smell… That’s all What is the difference between analog s**t and digital s**t? The analog one sticks at your shoes and smells... on the other hand, the digital one sticks on you but doesn’t smell. If you don’t do your homework and check what goes wrong in your old way of working and seek to understand why it’s going wrong, you will just implement the old/analog way. This ap-proach is not going to solve your problem. Generations of ERPs have been implemented to improve the accuracy of the stock and failed. If you continue to allow a random buying or an uncontrolled stock taking, know this: the quality will not improve with an ERP. It’s like always a fully unscripted recording !  Happy to get your feedbacks!  If you liked .. spread the news ! If you can’t wait for next week www.pibeco.com/book If you want to support me coindrop.to/Pirmin or  www.buymeacoffee.com/pirmin IT - ERP - Projects 33 years of experience - 99 thoughts - 66 minutes to read: Not Another How To Book, available on Amazon.  Support the show www.pibeco.com/book

    5 min

  3. SEP 26

    22 Pirmins Podcast thought # 22 Don‘t make all your processes bullet proof

    # 22 Don‘t make all your processes bullet proof Don’t try to make all your processes and exceptions bullet-proof. This will only increase the complexity of the implemen-tation and complexity is the enemy of stability, budget and success. Make your few core processes tank-cannon proof! If your employees can rely that a defined standard process is working stable and predictable, they can handle the exceptions. If you also try to make your exception process bulletproof, be sure to have the resources as you will never achieve. I saw once a sticker: We are engineers and make things foolproof. Each time we achieve some improved fool appears. It’s like always a fully unscripted recording !  Happy to get your feedbacks!  If you liked .. spread the news ! If you can’t wait for next week www.pibeco.com/book If you want to support me coindrop.to/Pirmin or  www.buymeacoffee.com/pirmin IT - ERP - Projects 33 years of experience - 99 thoughts - 66 minutes to read: Not Another How To Book, available on Amazon.  Support the show www.pibeco.com/book

    6 min

  4. SEP 19

    21 Pirmins Podcast thought # 21 Don’t try to reach everything in one run

    # 21  Don’t try to reach everything in one run When you start your project, the ambitions and motivation to change and go for the best are high. Even if aiming for the stars is needed to achieve best results, you need to be realistic enough to focus on what is needed. You will not reach any perfect result in one shot! Create something that is working. Give the team a success. Start with a minimum viable prod-uct/project. This makes failure less likely. Be sure some people will be disappointed about the “minimum”, but with the next iteration of the project/next wave you can do better and im-prove. Better 3 small steps and be each time successful than one big jump and fail. It’s like always a fully unscripted recording !  Happy to get your feedbacks!  If you liked .. spread the news ! If you can’t wait for next week www.pibeco.com/book If you want to support me coindrop.to/Pirmin or  www.buymeacoffee.com/pirmin IT - ERP - Projects 33 years of experience - 99 thoughts - 66 minutes to read: Not Another How To Book, available on Amazon.  Support the show www.pibeco.com/book

    5 min

  5. SEP 12

    20 Pirmins Podcast thought #20 Don’t change / widen your scope

    # 20 Don’t change / widen your scope Even though you should be open to increase the functionality, integration or usability of a solution, don’t change the scope once the project is started! Everybody tends to change or in-crease the project scope during the implementation phase as we all are learning and seeing that what we originally defined is not sufficient. Changing / adjusting the scope should only be done if there is an immediate and massive business value in-crease which over rules the risk of a project failure/delay. It’s like always a fully unscripted recording !  Happy to get your feedbacks!  If you liked .. spread the news ! If you can’t wait for next week www.pibeco.com/book If you want to support me coindrop.to/Pirmin or  www.buymeacoffee.com/pirmin IT - ERP - Projects 33 years of experience - 99 thoughts - 66 minutes to read: Not Another How To Book, available on Amazon.  Support the show www.pibeco.com/book

    5 min

  6. MAR 22

    19 Pirmins Podcast Thought #19 Aim for the stars

    # 19  Aim for the stars As your business vision is a vision and may never be achieved, your project vision must be open and wide. Don’t exclude ideas or solutions at the beginning. Think about all the integra-tion possibilities or features that would be great to use. As long as you stay realistic and know that aiming for the stars may result in landing on the moon, all is good. If you block yourself too early, you may even not reach a lift off. It’s like always a fully unscripted recording !  Happy to get your feedbacks!  If you liked .. spread the news ! If you can’t wait for next week https://www.pibeco.com/book/ If you want to support me  https://coindrop.to/Pirmin or   https://www.buymeacoffee.com/pirmin IT - ERP - Projects 33 years of experience - 99 thoughts - 66 minutes to read: Not Another How To Book, available on Amazon. Support the show www.pibeco.com/book

    6 min

  7. MAR 15

    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 making a Cola beverage is for nearly all Cola recipes the same… Just a different brand. If you want to get the buy-in from your team, especially if key users are involved, get as soon as possible reasonable test data, which reflect your company. Otherwise you will fight that users don’t understand the test case. (Comment form the author (me): if someone from a Cola beverage company is reading this and does not agree, please invite me for a call and tell me where I‘m wrong, happy to learn the differences.) It’s like always a fully unscripted recording !  Happy to get your feedbacks!  If you liked .. spread the news ! If you can’t wait for next week https://www.pibeco.com/book/ If you want to support me  https://coindrop.to/Pirmin or   https://www.buymeacoffee.com/pirmin IT - ERP - Projects 33 years of experience - 99 thoughts - 66 minutes to read: Not Another How To Book, available on Amazon. Support the show www.pibeco.com/book

    7 min

  8. 11/22/2024

    17 Pirmins Podcast Thought #17 A partner is a partner

    # 17 A partner is a partner  If you choose to implement a larger software project, you should consider the role of external persons / your implementa-tion partner. Complex software implementations need a deep understanding in your business and a deep trust from you in your partners. You should consider your implementation part-ner as partner not as a vendor/contractor! Same applies for other involved persons like freelancers, developers, sub-contractors. If you integrate them in your team structure and have a work relation like a partnership, things will go easier when troubles arise. Like everywhere finding the „right“ part-ner is a hard task. It is not sure that you will find the perfect one, but changing your partner when the slightest troubles arise will not help for stability and success. It’s like always a fully unscripted recording !  Happy to get your feedbacks!  If you liked .. spread the news ! If you can’t wait for next week www.pibeco.com/book If you want to support me coindrop.to/Pirmin or  www.buymeacoffee.com/pirmin Support the show www.pibeco.com/book

    6 min
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I am the author of "IT - ERP - Projects 33 years of experience - 99 thoughts - 66 minutes to read: Not Another How To Book" Available on amazon  (check your local amazon for faster / cheaper delivery!) or check http://www.pibeco.com/book  Some of the feedbacks I got were the wish for more details / more explications on the individual thoughts.  I'll take that challenge and will create a weekly short podcast on all major medias and video cast on YouTube.  It will be published on fridays, each episode starting with the lecture of one thought and then a brief explain / idea / experience behind. The podcasts will be 5-10 min.  If you like .. share and forward ! If you want to get in touch with me, check on LinkedIn ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/pirminbercher/ )  or via www.pibeco.comIf you liked .. spread the news !If you can’t wait for next week www.pibeco.com/bookIf you want to support me coindrop.to/Pirmin or  www.buymeacoffee.com/pirmin Have fun ! Greets  Pirmin  

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