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19. It's unusual to have specs for what the system being replaced actually does

Wed Jan 9, 2013, 03:20 PM

Jan 2013

Since it may be dozens of applications, built and bought, modified over decades on the basis of sometimes whimsical feature requests from various types of managers.

So of course there will be objections that the new system "doesn't do this", despite no one quite knowing why the old system "did this".

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Has Purchased Payroll software hit your workplace? [View all] hedgehog Jan 2013 OP

SAP has been successfully installed in thousands of client businesses. There have also been ... Scuba Jan 2013 #1

SAP will hire away the employees that are competent with the system, leaving the customer Liberal_in_LA Jan 2013 #3

In my experience (lots) there are "no hire" clauses in contracts between software vendors/clients... Scuba Jan 2013 #9

a prior workplace - SAP brought it to its knees. Screwed up paychecks, hard to work with system Liberal_in_LA Jan 2013 #2

I'm posting from work at the moment...so..."no comment". bullwinkle428 Jan 2013 #4

lol Liberal_in_LA Jan 2013 #5

Of course NONE of these problems were found during the testing BEFORE it went LIVE!!! benld74 Jan 2013 #6

ROFL! Next you will be talking about providing SPECS! IdaBriggs Jan 2013 #10

Specs are just a hindrance to getting every imaginable feature. Whining about ... Scuba Jan 2013 #15

It's unusual to have specs for what the system being replaced actually does FarCenter Jan 2013 #19

You're making me nostalgic. I specialized in taking over "train wreck" healthcare IT departments .. Scuba Jan 2013 #21

I thought "IT Architecture" was so limited a view; it was more like "IT Urban Redevelopment" FarCenter Jan 2013 #24

Ha! Great analogy. Now just add "doctors like gods" and see what you've got. Scuba Jan 2013 #26

Don't you have "psychic specficiations" provided for YOUR projects? IdaBriggs Jan 2013 #23

By now I'm compulsive about writing "in scope/out of scope" statements... Scuba Jan 2013 #27

You sound like you know what you are doing. IdaBriggs Jan 2013 #28

Sounds like you've been in the trenches too. Scuba Jan 2013 #32

Been selling my IT soul to the highest bidder IdaBriggs Jan 2013 #34

What is this 'testing' you speak of? Egalitarian Thug Jan 2013 #11

I once pissed off a "dotted line" boss -- IdaBriggs Jan 2013 #29

Don't look now, but they're coming to healthcare KamaAina Jan 2013 #7

EPIC is not associated with SAP. Privately-owned EPIC has been successfully installed ... Scuba Jan 2013 #12

Well, all right. Why, when I went to an Epic demo a couple of months ago, KamaAina Jan 2013 #17

Probably because EPIC and SAP have been interfaced. There may have been a Lawson or ... Scuba Jan 2013 #20

The implementation team is to blame. IdaBriggs Jan 2013 #8

Bingo. Scuba Jan 2013 #14

You don't mean to say someone tried to get by on the cheap! That always saves money! hedgehog Jan 2013 #16

And they should *totally* cut the training budget - that IdaBriggs Jan 2013 #25

SAP is the world's largest seller of business software FarCenter Jan 2013 #13

SAP is an extraneous layer of poorly written software that had an excellent sinkingfeeling Jan 2013 #18

SAP is supposed to be a "black box" installation. ieoeja Jan 2013 #22

i feel your pain! hedgehog Jan 2013 #30

+1000 and I've wondered for years why IT shops bought it. sinkingfeeling Jan 2013 #31

Because management got snowed by pretty presentations IdaBriggs Jan 2013 #35

"Mainframes were running DOS"????? SharonAnn Jan 2013 #33

Beginning in 1966. FarCenter Jan 2013 #36

My first job was punching cards and hauling decks and tapes down hedgehog Jan 2013 #38

Dos/360 was announced in 1964. Forefunner of VSE. sinkingfeeling Jan 2013 #39

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Thanks for Alert...our small business is going through enough hell..more KoKo Jan 2013 #37

You're kidding, right? jmowreader Jan 2013 #41

Ugh, my agency has a SAP GUI HR/Payroll system. yewberry Jan 2013 #42

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