Pirmin's Podcast : IT - ERP - Projects 33 years of experience - 99 thoughts, a weekly podcast

# 14  If plan “A” fails, the alphabet has 25 other letters As mentioned in „A Plan is a Plan“, things can go wrong and will go wrong. (Remember Murphy’s laws) Most likely failure will happen the moment where it’s either completely unex-pected or most critical. A good thing to anticipate that, is to have a draft version of a backup / failure plan. This does not mean to have a detailed version of it...

#13 A plan is a plan When you handle complex projects, making a plan how to execute the different steps, identifying the critical path, defin-ing the resources and working on different scenarios is crucial-ly important. But life / your project will not follow your plan! The moment you signed off the plan, started to work on it, things will diverge from the plan. Now comes the situation everyone fe...

#12  Don’t do too much parallel  During project execution we will face challenges that things don’t go like they were planned. We then tend to find ways to optimize the progress.. These include strategies like adding more resources, but be careful, typical elementary school math question: if one musician plays a song in 5 min, how long does it take if you add 4 more, not 1 min.. it still remains 5...

#11 What is said, is said This goes with „People hear what they want to hear “, once a message is out, it's out! If you speak about budget and say any number, the moment you said it, this is the target budget, at least if it is less than the audience expected, even mentioning that it needs to be confirmed will not help in future discus-sions. The figures are in the head of the audience. Same...

#10 People hear what they want to hear You can have PowerPoints or Excel-sheets as many as you want. You can hold meeting and explain facts and details. In many cases the audience goes the easy way and „hears what is comfortable “. If you are on a tight budget, the finance team most likely will pay attention on any comment and information about staying in budget/reduced costs, but not hear the ris...

#09This system even does not have an invoice layout One of the comments I often had about IT systems is their ability to generate a desired output /print/file format. Most of the time it is either about finance, KPI reporting or any „need to look nice“ output like sales invoices or purchase orders. This goes back to the „standard topic “, even though there is a general expectation about the outcom...

#08This is standard We all want to believe that there is a defined standard way of doing anything. In projects, you always hear, especially during the presales discussion, “this function is standard.” People want to be reassured by asking the question, “Can you confirm this is standard?” Now, take a step back and think what stand-ard truly means. If your business is standard and the solution is st...

#07 Local vs Global Even though nowadays we always aim for global acting, be sure your business model requires it. If you depend on very local resources and markets, the target of a global acting sys-tem might be wrong. Or just simply adding complications where you don’t get a benefit. Out of your business vision you should have seen where you want to act as business over the next decade. If you a...

# 06We have a very special business model Well, yes and no. There are quite few general business models which describe the needs and structures of many organizations on a high to medium level. If you think you can’t fit in one of these, question yourself why! Being special and unique in op-erations and ways to define your processes can lead to very complex solutions. If you are sure that your busi...

# 05 Our customer demands for a special solution If your business model and vision is defined by a few / single customers (your business customers/clients), then the demand to use the same solution as you customer/proposed by your customer might be a good choice as it reduces interface im-plementation. This can facilitate integrations. As it enforces an integration this may limit the business opti...

Here comes the next one  # 04 Have your ERP Vision, Strategy and Plan Once you have defined the prerequisites, you now need to define the scope of your ERP. Where do you want to go? What kind of business you need to support? Will you try to do all in „one magical ERP“? Are there constraints except the typical budget (time & money)? Are you part of an integrated business where you need to adopt...

Here comes the next one  # 03Have your IT Landscape Vision, Strategy and Plan Much in your ERP project will depend upon your IT Land-scape. Limitations often come from IT platforms, support and knowledge. Make sure you’ve done your homework. Consolidating IT landscape during an ERP is very critical. Even though the ERP is / will be the heart of your business process software, make sure you don’t f...

Here comes the next one  #02 Have a Vision, Strategy and Plan before you begin.  It’s a fully unscripted recording !  Happy to get your feedbacks!  If you liked .. spread the news ! If you can’t wait for next week www.pibeco.com/book If you want to support me coindrop.to/Pirmin or  www.buymeacoffee.com/pirmin Support the show www.pibeco.com/book

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Hello,  few months ago, I published a book on my 33 years of experience in IT - ERP -Project.  Some readers requested deeper insights on the topics, so I decided to go for a pod/video cast to deeper explain. This is the introduction pod /video cast, which will be followed by a weekly cast on the individual thoughts ! It’s a fully unscripted recording !  Happy to get your feedbacks!  If you liked ....