Notes on public-sector buying, Microsoft-native delivery and getting data you can trust. Written by the people doing the work, for the people who have to defend the choice afterwards.
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Most organisations make this choice system by system, under pressure, and then have to explain it to finance or a procurement panel. How to compare the two over five years, where bespoke goes wrong, and the middle option most people miss.
Off-the-shelf for the processes that are the same everywhere. Bespoke, or a small build connected to a product, for the part that makes you different. Judge both on what they will cost to change in five years, not what they cost to launch.
The reporting problem is almost never the tool. It is that the same number is assembled by hand in three places.
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Name the decision and the cost of getting it wrong, keep a person at the final call, and log everything.
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Connecting the systems you already run, and automating the steps between them, is usually the quickest payback available.
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Moving is the easy half. What it costs and who is watching it eighteen months later is the half that gets neglected.
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Agile written for the people paying for it: what you will see every fortnight and what you will be asked to do.
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Being local is only worth paying attention to if it changes something. Here is where it does, and where it does not.
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