NAV Implementations: Betting a Business On a Mad Horse? (Part 1)
The following article is adapted from the new Packt Publishing book "Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009" by Vjekoslav Babic and David Roys.
Whether you are building a house or an airplane, growing crops or writing a book, you have the benefit of many years of collective experience summed up into a methodology. Methodology helps us understand the goals, and the methods to reach the goals. A good methodology brings to the surface the risks and pitfalls involved, which will keep us from making the same mistakes that someone else has made in the past.
Failures can be costly. Had the first guy who ran marathon length, poor Pheidippides, known how the marathon was supposed to be run, he may not have died of a heart attack!
The best methodology that exists for implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV is Sure Step-Microsoft's methodology developed specifically for implementing the ERP and CRM products in the Microsoft Dynamics family.
This methodology is far more than just a set of methods and a knowledge base about implementation projects, and it consists of:
- Best practices that let the consultant know how an implementation task or a set of tasks should be performed to achieve the best possible result, or to avoid mistakes that have already been made by someone in the past.
- Tools that make it easier to perform tasks by automating or streamlining time-consuming and error-prone tasks, such as organization and business process mapping.
- Templates that boost productivity by providing a documentation framework. Preparing documentation using these templates ensures that every important aspect of the documentation has been touched, ...
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