Warning… I am going on a little rant here… wanting to correct bad practices that are continually put into place by various programmers, system “designers” and users. Situation: Customer “Walmart” has special rule for order entry that says “Lead Time = 3 days for all standard products”. So… the us…

One man band but I want my end users to maintain stuff not least as I expect to move on and not be replaced. Agree with Tim, add UD fields or use the many data analysis grouping fields so that users can maintain themselves.

[image] A.Baeisa: but do not agree with what they stated of excuses for using hard coding I feel it’s a pretty fair excuse. Interest of time is significant and you have to take into account the time spent on a minor change vs something that provides PI/CI. Again, optimally everything would be…

Hi @jgiese.wci , i am not going to argue with you mate, you have much greater experience than me, i am only saying my opinion, in my 8 years experience in designing ERP solutions, always had to go back and update/improve/ or upgrade my design to do more stuff or to cover uprising changes, and always…

Not really looking for a fight lol, I’m just trying to make sure, as much as the golden goose of perfection sounds nice, people think about the needs of their company and what will get them the best bang for their buck. I will do things to my detriment and for sure not to the standard I would like t…

I agree with Josh(and also Tim, of course) as programmers/managers/etc. we should try to overthink about what the user is trying to obtain. Users are quite miopic when expressing their needs and even that particular mental process to attain that info. I have some users that ask pretty specifc things…

Sometimes, done is better than perfect. As so eloquently put in Agile terms. [image] Done Is Better than Perfect - Blog DeSmart Don’t take me wrong, I’d love to see the perfect software/article etc., but it just doesn’t exist. We’re only human and we make mistakes. If we aren’t perfect,…

Sounds like you need to farm some of this work out to that REST pro contact.

[image] Banderson: Sometimes, done is better than perfect. As so eloquently put in Agile terms. Which is what @jgiese.wci was saying. MVP…

I used to be horrible about documentation, hard coding etc… it always haunted me down the road. If anything, i have learned so much over the last two years since i started Agile Scrum project management, not only from iterative development, but gathering requirements that can be somewhat nebulous f…

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