Aventuras y desventuras del chico centella

I have enjoyed this book a lot, funny familiar stories between annecdotes and historic information about how a US was evolving during these years. The way the book is written and the ironic tone is excellent, and made I had a good time reading it.

Joomla 2.5 Language Switcher

The problem I had was that the language switcher plug-in was not showing the flags. The way to enable that the language switcher plug-in works, I have followed these steps: 1. Enable required plug-ins and modules. (Extensions -> Plug-in Manager) -> enable : System – Language Filter (Extensions -> Module manager) -> enable : Language … Read more

The art of waiting

You plan things, work hard during months and suddenly after a while an opportunity appears, a train you don’t want to lose. Reach this point you do your bet and then you have to wait, some days, some weeks, some months. During the decision making process for this deal, that affects personally to you, there … Read more

Changing the direction of the trend

We finished the year with less revenue than budgeted. These are not good news but the positive evolution in terms of new deals and recently signed contracts is doing the behaviour to be better for this first half of the year than expected (or budgeted if you want). There are some basic reasons: We are … Read more

It’s easter, we’re closed

Our Application services are very simple in the way they are organized: critical services and key services. The first category are covered 24×7 and 365 days. The second ones are just 8×5 on working days. The rule is simple: what service do you want to pay? just pick one. This year the finance closing period … Read more

Kick-off meeting, a day to rest

Today we conducted the kick-off meeting for a project. This SAP technical upgrade starts next week after an assessment process and the feeling has been: how beautiful calm we have experienced Today in comparison with the assessment process, where the stress was present in almost all the areas of evaluation. Will do have a please … Read more

Bye Bye blogger

I did a decision one month ago and it was to move this blog to a different place. Why? why not.. These are my thoughts and my notes, no more.

Lessons learned, SAP Technical upgrade assessment

This assessment has been a very accurate exercise for defining the right approach for the technical upgrade, the reasons? Our customer wants to save money on the project. They want to understand how much can be saved in terms of infrastructure investment. They want to fit the solution with their SAP environment, looking for potential … Read more

What a customer looks for?

Suddenly I’m your customer, what am I looking for? You are prepared: do you know your/my industry, you know the business processes, what is/isn’t valuable for us, our priorities, our business initiatives. You know my company: who we are, how we approve/reject projects, where we are investing, who is who. You demonstrate initiative: Be proactive … Read more