REAL LIFE ICC
For all that it's worth - no one can dispute an hands-on experience with any kind of concept, therefore let's get real...
Like a horse with blinders
Several years ago we arranged annual customer event for one of our large-scale customer. After the formal agenda, two of our project managers who had led the integration project parts of different ERP projects in that very same customer, sat down together to share experiences. Our project managers are often a combination of designer...
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Mind the gap
Once upon an ERP project, somewhere near production deployment, a nasty show-stopper bug tore down the dream of production use of ERP in scheduled time. Well, nothing out of the ordinary in that. Bugs should be found before production deployment. And this tiny little bug was not even the nastiest sort, a mere data mapping flaw that...
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Hunger for Spaghetti
“Can it be so hard?!?”, asked a Customer with frustrated tone. This question was about a problem in a simple integration interface that received product catalogs from separate suppliers, transformed them and loaded them into ERP -system. Suddenly the receiving interface rejected incoming catalogs from certain suppliers due to a...
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Test-driven Development and Integration
Test-driven development (TDD) is one of the best ways to ensure quality of integration development. The idea is to first create automated test cases. The first test round should fail. This failure occurs because the developer has not yet implemented the integration solution that leads to success and ensures that test cases work...
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Tilting at Windmills
Quite a long break since my last architectural blog entry. It's not that there's nothing to say - only lack of time to write it down. I started writing this post about different integration worker characteristics as a continuation to my earlier post on architects. I sketched different shades of grey on paper but somehow ended up on...
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