Entries from February 2009 ↓

Quality of design documents is the perpetual issue which I had to face on every implementation I had ever had a chance to work on.
On my very first Oracle eBusiness Suite implementation project my manager asked me to paste everything, including source code at 6pt, into one big Word document to make sure nobody reads it. I am very thankful to my manager because I learned how not to write design documents and I read AIM Guidelines, both volumes. Question to the audience: who has ever seen these documents? Continue reading →

I have been always surprised how people with mediocre skill sets get on projects. It has not been once or twice when I worked on a project with consultants which could not deliver what was expected on a daily basis. They all passed screening interviews and have nice resumes. And yet, no matter how much the deliverable was discussed, it was not coming together….slowly becoming a snowball. Continue reading →