When was the last time you asked a person, “Where are you going on vacation?” and they said, “I don’t know!” Or you asked, “How are you getting there?” and they shrugged and said, “No idea.” Doesn’t happen, does it? The reality is that vacations are so important that we make plans. We define the
Read More...I recently overheard a conversation at a higher education institution that went something like this: Facilities Mgr.: Good morning, how can I help you? Caller: I need a new bulb for this projector. FM: Sir, what projector? Caller: The projector in my classroom. FM: Okay, where is your classroom? Caller: I’m in the Johnson Building.
Read More...Prior to jumping into the world of PeopleSoft consulting, I spent many years implementing accounting solutions, as well as conducting instructor-led training for those applications. In my years, I had some great classes, and I had some that just plain left me scratching my head. Was it me? Probably not: nobody except the lead developer
Read More...As I talk to customers about their PeopleSoft solution, it is interesting to me how often the discussion now seems to involve some flavor of a global solution. For one project, it’s as “simple” as a single location in Ireland, but it drives a need for consolidations and multiple currency calculations. For another project, we are engaged
Read More...Some folks rank an upgrade right up there with routine maintenance on your car and a trip to the dentist. You know it has to be done, and everyone can tell you why you should do it, but it is just so darn hard to get motivated about it. Let’s be honest, you have heard
Read More...The customization equation has always been a difficult recipe – a subtle mix of three parts regulatory requirements mixed with two parts user-adoption and then simmered to perfection by a competent group of developers to be consumed by a team of end-users. The process was almost always a journey from disdain (“What do you mean
Read More...Initially I thought Twitter was some gimmick through which celebrities (insert your own definition of celebrity) fed their own egos by posting snippets of their life. I didn’t care, so Twitter did not interest me much. I did not even watch Entertainment Tonight, so following some “celebrity du jour” as they tweeted arcane details of
Read More...I’ve always been a little bit of a techno-geek. While I am rarely bleeding edge, I usually like to be one of the first to embrace a new technology. Over the years, I have watched the crossover create convergence, and found myself amazed at the transition. Does anybody remember writing memorandums and actually sending (or
Read More...So, it seems another fixed-fee implementation project has failed and resulted in a lawsuit pitting the buyer against the implementer. Somehow I don’t think this is the outcome that either of them wanted, yet I sense an undertone of suspicion that hinted at this early on. Implementations go best when the system integrator is a
Read More...When I graduated, I received my Bachelor’s degree in Accounting. All through college I was taught that an asset was a “thing” that had value. We put it on the books and depreciate it over its useful life so that we could eventually replace it. Beyond asset classes to define depreciation formulas and useful life,
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