I have never thought about myself as a salesman. Simple reason is that person cannot be the best at everything. We have to choose. My choice was technical skills. Not sales ones. I cannot imagine myself selling crap products (if you are a salesman you often cannot afford to choose). I was prefer to be the one making product and assure no crap product will be produced with my participation.
I got business intelligence project now and my manager told me I have to sell it to the management. Ok, I will try to do that, but honestly I’ve never
I’ve been witness for the second time how people like to be creative on the wrong way. Instead of inventing a new fragmentation, why don’t use existing one? What I have on my mind is to copy country post office route organization. It’s very simple, since all what we need is available to everyone. You do not need anything else but ZIP/Postal code of the cities!
Couple of years ago I’ve faced with unpleasantness when I’ve upgraded couple of Windows 98 workstation to Windows XP: FoxPro 2.6 applications simple consumed so many system resources that everything is hit: printing takes longer than usual, network traffic throughput is reduced since processor does not have free time to deal with these issues, it’s mainly occupied with currently running MSDOS session with foxpro application within. Some recommendation was to adjust idle sensitivity settings on shortcut but it does not solve the problem: depend of settings you can choose between two extremes: to confess all resources to foxpro process, or to take them from it (in which case foxpro application is running very slow – almost useless).
For the last several months I’ve been trying to find apropriate solution to track my money incomes and expenses, together with budgeting… I’ve been tested several solution but if they were good enough there were not free, otherwise they have lack of functionality… I’ve spend some times on some spreadsheet documents I was able to download and try to adjust them to my needs… Even I made them suit my needs, it was only for the limited time due to lack of spreadsheet design and logic… I have had difficulties to reconcile with fact in case when I borrowing money to my friends, I’m the one who should record this transaction and later remind them to pay me back… And I’m not making any profit in that! It was too much… Then I’ve decided to look for some online solution and on third attempt I’ve discovered Buxfer!
Sometimes master data in your ERP or similar software could be full with obsolete definitions not used anymore. It could look like they should be erased from databases to make data more reliable. There are to many reasons not to do it. Regardless it is item master data, partner master data or any other master data type… Once opened master definitions should exist for all eternity. Clearing those unused definitions could cause more troubles than benefits.
Information technologies today put us (IT persons) in more advantage position compared to other peoples. Doing this job for several years I often come into position when I questioning myself – Am I still on a good way or I’m endangered to mislead myself? 
Almost a year ago, when I’ve talked to manager&owner of one domestic business software company, I’ve been asking him why talking codes are not well supported in their products. His answer was no one is using them anymore, they are obsolete. After one more year of experience in ERP area my conclusion is that you can found talking codes very attractive solutions. If they are implemented on a good way they will save thousands working hours to related analyst position within your company.