You configured the workaround, and now it’s policy

Software projects get judged on licence cost and go-live dates. The decision that actually matters gets made months earlier, usually by whoever had capacity.

By Steve 5 min read
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Two businesses of similar size buy the same platform in the same year. Three years later one of them has a system its people trust and a set of numbers the board argues about productively. The other has the same software, four spreadsheets that live outside it, a monthly report nobody quite believes, and a quiet consensus that the next system will fix things. The licence fee was identical. The difference was decided during configuration, and almost certainly by someone who was chosen because they were available rather than because…

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