Ball park estimates

There’s a time every year when all people perform their foresee for coming year. When this time arrives, IT leads and business people start to ask for estimations they are going to use for incoming years. This happens and the summer this will not happen, it will mean my customer does not want to work … Read more

SAP technical upgrade go-live successful

Today is a date to remember. 3rd and 4th August 2012, the day we moved to production the ECC6 version of the HCM environment. Not the end of the project but a great milestone. After the go-live there are some activities for the closing the project, that are: Back-up of the new system, Fix some … Read more

Team changes, why?

I’m facing a weird situation where a team member is going to be replaced by other person. I’m happy with the employee, the employee is happy with the position… so what’s wrong? The line manager is not good and does not have the enough maturity to understand the things we perform for our customer and … Read more

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

The chapters are dedicated to each of the habits, which are represented by the following imperatives: Be Proactive. Here, Covey emphasizes the original sense of the term “proactive” as coined by Victor Frankl. You can either be proactive or reactive when it comes to how you respond to certain things. When you are reactive, you … Read more

Defects and Cost Control

The graphic below tries to show that there is a cost associated with poor quality. The concept is: If you have poor quality you have to develop processes and systems and expend resources to provide quality control. By reducing the number of defects produced by a process you free up the resources involved in oversight … Read more

Move to Seville

We have been looking for location alternatives for balancing professional and personal live. There were three options on the paper I did on March with a clear priority. Finally the third option is the only realistic option, and despite it was the third one on the list, I’m more happy to have this one than … Read more