Are meetings a waste of time? We meet people for two-way communication. Thus, listening is the critical part of a meeting. Meetings are a waste of time if you only speak and do not listen. It goes back to your intent. If you intend to communicate and listen to...
The Decision That Looked Perfectly Reasonable The Finance Manager needed a better system for managing accounts. MYOB Acumatica made sense. The decision was scoped, justified, approved. Perfectly reasonable. A few months later, the Marketing Manager needed a CRM....
Technology has moved on.....! Technology has made rapid giant leaps in every dimension. For instance, we have moved from mainframes to the cloud in computing. The advancement is in every aspect of the hardware and software industry. Moreover, there are no signs of...
Is project management a science or art? A common question that people ask. Without a doubt, Project Management is science as well as art. Let us unwrap! Project Management is a science Look at the following aspects: 1. Project methodologies and frameworks They have...
It is one of the most common questions I get asked during business analysis: Can we automate this? The business stakeholders often ask if we can automate the existing manual process? The underlying question remains the same. But, they ask it in different ways. My...
As a business executive, your job is to make decisions. While you hold a position of power, you may get away by not making timely decisions. You may blame lack of information, uncertainty in business or another excuse. The fact is that you hold a position of power to...
Yes, the software projects are too expensive to implement. Especially, enterprise (ERP/CRM) and packaged (COTS) software. Let us see why? Look, the two major costs for software implementations are: Software Vendors costProfessional services (Consulting, Development,...
Software estimate facts? What is so special about them? 80% of executives I speak to are still missing the point. So, here is a blog post, uncovering software estimate facts! The software estimate is an approximate measure of work needed to complete the given scope....