It’s Spring, and you know what that means: sometimes-incoherent preambles here on this blog, especially on Friday when most aren’t looking and I get to use the computer by myself. So here are some random thoughts, in no order whatsoever, hastily blurted forth before I get in trouble: I still can’t find an iPad 2.
Read More...Recently, it was reported right here on this blog that I purchased an iPad. For those who know me, yes, this was a significant event. Now that a few months have passed, I’d like to offer an update. Because here’s the backstory: even though I live and breathe PeopleSoft and ERP and professional services, I’m
Read More...“Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?” — Steve Jobs to then-Pepsi executive John Sculley to lure him to come work for Apple. Sculley mentions this exchange in the documentary Bloomberg Game Changers: Steve Jobs. The series
Read More...Know This Last year’s definitive list of April Fools pranks as curated from the internet at large. Can’t wait to see what this year’s list looks like. Familiar with the uber-nerdy +1 meme? You should be, because Google just announced a product called +1 and its name is clever, but obscure. How to write a
Read More...Long before joining MIPRO I used to write software documentation. As part of the process, we had some pretty spirited debates about our assumptions for these training guides. Do you assume the users know anything about accounting? Do you assume they know the industry? Do you assume they are college educated? Do you assume anything?
Read More...“Don’t worry too much about security. You will eventually have a deep security when you begin to do what you want.” — Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones (Via Merlin) ### MIPRO Consulting is a nationally-recognized consulting firm specializing inPeopleSoft Enterprise (particularly Enterprise Asset Management) andBusiness Intelligence. You’re reading MIPRO Unfiltered, its blog. If you’d
Read More...Know This I missed this last week, but better late than never: Alec Baldwin offers advice to Charlie Sheen. Voice map assures Britons they’re not speaking like Americans. Why most of the world’s cuisine is comfort food, despite modernist trends. A clever deconstruction and analysis of the phrase, ‘it turns out.’ It turns out I
Read More...From Peter Bregman over at Harvard Business Review Blogs comes a story with a lesson everyone – literally, everyone – can use for the first time or, if you’re really lucky, be reminded of: Nothing we said seemed to have any impact on her. Nothing changed her expressionless stare. Nothing helped. Then her grandmother Mimi
Read More...In our last blog about project risk, we made mention of our Project Progress Assessment Workshop which supports risk identification, management and mitigation. PeopleSoft implementations can be complex and challenging with many projects running within the core project. Ensuring that all activities, obligations, project structure and deliverables are met on time is a challenge unto
Read More...“You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting shorter, and you can’t put things off thinking you’ll get to them someday. If you really want to do them, you better do them. There are simply too many people getting sick, and
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