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Practical perspectives for people who are considering business system development.
Articles are ordered from before commissioning to development and post-release operations.
A guide for commissioning business systems
What tends to happen when a system stops at the initial release, and why the same team can be valuable for operations and improvement.
A guide for commissioning business systems
How to organize purpose, scope, priorities, acceptance criteria, and operations before asking a development company for a proposal.
A guide for commissioning business systems
What clients should delegate to a development company, what they should decide themselves, and how to work as one project team.
A guide for commissioning business systems
The purpose, success conditions, users, and boundaries to clarify before turning a business problem into a requirements document.
A guide for commissioning business systems
How to review duplicated input, exceptions, and hidden rules before turning a paper, spreadsheet, or chat-based process into a system.
A guide for commissioning business systems
A practical checklist of current materials, pain points, unknowns, and decisions that make an initial system consultation more useful.
A guide for commissioning business systems
A way to separate essential features from useful additions by looking at workflow impact, frequency, risk, and the scope of the first release.
A guide for commissioning business systems
How scope, precision, priorities, and post-launch operations affect a business system estimate before you compare proposals.
A guide for commissioning business systems
A practical acceptance-test view organized around real workflows, permissions, data, and exception handling from the client's perspective.
A guide for commissioning business systems
How to organize post-launch operations, questions, improvement requests, and the support structure instead of treating launch as the end.
A guide for commissioning business systems
How to decide whether Excel or spreadsheets are still appropriate, and when to consider systemization for shared business work.
