January 30, 2009 7:56 PM
Posted by: SJC
Application design,
Business process automation,
custom application developmentWithout fail, in my experience as a developer any potentially valuable custom application project has been the result of identifying some area of operation which:
- Has become unwieldy, requiring too many steps or multiple data entry
- Has become more and more demanding as a...
January 30, 2009 7:46 PM
Posted by: SJC
Application design,
Application development tools,
Business process automationFirst -- In the interest of public discloser I must confess that perhaps I am biased on the subject of custom applications. While writing my previous post I found myself once again becoming excited about application development, and more especially the value that such an application can...
December 29, 2008 3:00 PM
Posted by: SJC
Application design,
Business process automation,
ERP,
Implementation Planning,
IT administration,
IT ManagementTo this day (...and possibly forever) I remember August 1, 1999 not with fond memories, but rather with a complex set of emotions which begin a churning upset in my stomach. The day was, without a doubt, one of the most memorable days of my life for its stress level. It was the perfect example...
October 9, 2008 3:59 PM
Posted by: SJC
Application design,
Business process automation,
Small Business Computing,
Software QualityThere's nothing that I can think of to "shake up" business processes and the custom applications used to support those processes more than a personnel change. This is most clearly apparent in the small company applications used by a handful of key users in the company. If for whatever reason...
October 6, 2008 11:46 AM
Posted by: SJC
Application design,
Application Performance,
Business process automation,
Human Interface Design,
Software application development,
Software Quality,
Software testing,
User InterfaceADD -- aka Attention Deficit Disorder -- is, some say, an altogether too common ailment in today's society, at least in the U.S. While I certainly don't intend to debate that issue, a recent experience got me to thinking about how children with ADD do and will grow up to be computer application...
September 25, 2008 1:00 AM
Posted by: SJC
Application design,
Business Application Value,
Business process automation,
IT Management,
Small Business,
Social Networking,
Software application developmentSocial networking in business has been receiving quite a bit of press lately with many differing views on just what should or should not be allowed, or how to use various social networking tools now available. I ran into an interesting read in an article "
September 24, 2008 11:19 AM
Posted by: SJC
Application design,
Business process automation,
character based applications,
Small Business Computing,
Software maintenanceI had the opportunity recently to make some minor changes to reports originally created in the late 80's. The application is a character-based app running on an "old" version of SCO Unix, and hardware that has been kept alive by some clever mix and match combination of "old" components taken from...
August 25, 2008 12:31 PM
Posted by: SJC
Application design,
Business process automation,
Information overload,
IT Management,
Small Business Computing,
Software application developmentInformation overload is a topic which has seen enough blog and article time to provide a generous amount of information overload on its own! As an example, I searched Google for the term "information overload" and it returned the first 10 of approximately 2,160,000 "hits" (...but who's counting?...
July 28, 2008 1:24 PM
Posted by: SJC
Application design,
Business Application Value,
Business process automation,
Small Business Computing,
Software application developmentWe developers need input from our users!
This became very clear to me once again last week when I received an unexpected request from a user to add a simple lookup function to a field in their order entry program which has been in use (...and regularly enhanced) for over 5 years. When I first...