May 27, 2019
Originally posted on March 7, 2012
Some of you younger whippersnappers may not remember the days when data was stored in file cabinets. That's not a metaphor, I mean actual metal file cabinets. It's true! In the olden days, we used to have rooms full of them.
We had a cabinet for employee records, another one for...
May 20, 2019
One of the sessions at D365 Saturday Philadelphia this past weekend was "Managing a D365 CE Project" by Jennyfer Hogeland, it was a great session. On one of her slides she described "Definition of Done", and that phrase stuck in my head.
I don't know about you, but when I hear the word "Done", I assume something...
May 14, 2019
I am currently in the software consulting business supporting Microsoft's Power Platform. As you may know, I write about it a lot, but for this post I wanted to veer off a little bit from my typical subject matter. Instead I wanted to talk about customers, and their experiences with companies that provide...
May 13, 2019
What a wonderful invention spreadsheets were. For many things, I don't know how we even managed before them. Okay, I do know, because I am that old... we managed things poorly. Spreadsheets solved so many challenges, that they eventually created new ones.
The first spreadsheet software I actually used was called...
May 10, 2019
So the buzz about the Common Data Service (CDS) has reached a deafening stage. It is the most exciting thing that has come out of the Microsoft Business Applications group in a decade. The possibilities jumped into the category of "endless". So how do you start with something that is endless?
I previously...