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CustomiseTheCompanyNotTheSoftware

Context

Often there are two choices, customise the software to fit the company, or customise the company to fit the software

Forces

  • Desire to customise everything for the special snowflake that is "the company"
  • Only knowledgable folks inside the company could possibly understand the complexity of how things are done in "the company"
  • Often few people ( if any - be honest! ) actually understand the end to end process workflow of their deparment/unit.
  • Large project mentality means that anything new, has to have a full implementation budget etc...
  • Existing project teams want to form a new project to customise the new implementation
  • Customisation seems like the "right thing to do"
  • COTS software perceived as "cheap".

Solution

For COTS ( Common Off The Shelf Software ), it is often easier ( and less costly! ) to modify the company slightly to match the shared common practices in the software.