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In “For Bloomberg, Waste Mars Another Digital Project” (September 23, 2011) David M. Halbfinger looks back on the New York City Automated Personnel System (NYCAPS) project started a decade or more ago, adding up the costs incurred so far…
The wisdom of duels: Larry vs. Larry There is a certain wisdom to be gleaned from dueling. America’s history is filled with many famous duels, a slow stepping off of paces, usually ten but sometimes more and sometimes less, an eventual turning to face the other’s weapon, and a finale leaving one or the other, [...]
A while back some said that PeopleSoft’s days were numbered, on a steady decline to irrelevance, enterprise software soon to be discarded like those old cars you sometimes see as you drive America’s back roads, in the front yard, prominently displayed like yard art, up on blocks, containing more rust than sheet metal. Now it [...]
Welcome to Certain Wisdom, your new home. I trust your move was transparent, easy, and painless. This new site uses advanced technology, offers more features, and provides overall a much better user experience. I think you will like it. The primary focus of the new Certain Wisdom site will remain the same: emphasizing the importance [...]
A house in my neighborhood has been in a partially finished state for a long time. The foundation has been layed. The framing has been done. The windows are installed. The roof has been shingled. The exterior has been wrapped. The workers who did these tasks left months ago. As I walked by the construction [...]
As the upgrade season moves into full swing some may get caught up in the momentum, the excitement of new functions and new features, perhaps, leading to considerable changes in how your people do their work. It is fun, even necessary, to visualize the improvements, yet, like a baseball bat made from rotted wood, your [...]
Do you feel like when you talk no one is listening? Does it seem like the only time you see your boss is when something goes wrong? When someone, always a person without the power to change anything, asks how you do it, get up each morning, work frantically for hours on end, late nights, [...]
“…What’s the matter with the car I’m driving? Can’t you tell that it’s out of style? Should I get a set of white wall tires? Are you gonna cruise the miracle mile?…” – “It’s still Rock and Roll to me” by Billy Joel The world is chock full of newly chic, thoroughly modern project management [...]
Ah! Some heartening job news just came my way, not necessarily information deserving of a fireworks celebration, not quite an opera moment when the townspeople flock to the square and there is much rejoicing, yet it appears that the job opportunities for PeopleSoft practitioners are now improving, by a lot. Check out this latest report [...]
For some the Holiday season is a magical time, for others depressing and difficult, for still others somewhere in between. Last week I had a small experience, a quick tale that raised my holiday spirit. Here’s my story. Please feel free to comment and share your own if you like. I started my car very [...]
Oracle recently announced a new name and a new price for the PeopleSoft portal, known to many as the PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal and to others as the PeopleSoft Community Portal. The new name is: PeopleSoft Applications Portal, a description that Oracle hopes will clarify this product’s role, unifier of user experience and content, facilitator of [...]
…nothing left to lose, fudging dates, underestimating efforts, avoiding tough choices, evading difficult meetings, presenting vaguely worded results, arbitrarily turning red lights to green, hiding important information from project participants, or being nice by giving people only the news they want to hear. The best way to save money on your upgrade is to do [...]
