Just when you thought it was safe ...

Yes, I'm back. (Sorry Craig !)
I wonder if any of the Krazy Old Krew is still here that will remember me.
Anyway, just want to take a moment to mention that I've finally had enough free time to spend some reading the2nd Edition of Practical Workflow for SAP (2009) and I can't put it down. It's way more interesting than Avatar ...
Second, congratulatons to SAP for committing the resources to help Workflow into the future and congratulations to Joceyln, Erik, Ginger, Oliver, Somya, Silvana, Susan, Thomas, Paul, Mike, Alan, Shalini, Jorn, and Ted on a phenomenal, truly truly impressive job on the 2nd Edition !!!!!
Third, I'm back in a position where I may have interesting work-related issues to blog about again, so look for some upcoming blogs under Ranting (you know - the "no points awarded category - so no one can complain about point-harvesting) ...
Best to all, whether you remember me or not.
djh
Edited by: David Halitsky on Mar 11, 2010 8:34 PM

Thanks for the link to V's bloglist, Stephen.
Although I applaud both his effort and perspective as valuable, I do think he may be ignoring two very simple economic drivers in his discussion of SI's:
functional specs are relatively high-margin, low-risk work products
(low-risk because intrinsically untestable prior to actual development, high-margin because SI's bill out SME's high)
code is a low-margin, high-risk work product
(high-risk because intrinsically testable, low-margin because SI's bill out developers low relative to SME rates)
Are these key drivers in the SI business model?
And if so, is it any wonder that a project fails after being front-loaded with too many SME's who can never contractually be held accountable by the customer for inadequacies in their specs, assuming they're even still on the project when the inadequacies are discovered during development? Is it any wonder that there often doesn't seem to be enough time and money left to get develoment done properly and that developers must often participate directly with customer personnel in ex post facto "design by defect" cycles?
Suppose each SI were required to enter each of its SME's in a central registry along with the name of each of the functional specs the SME had completed for any previous customer.
Suppose further that for each of an SME's functional specs in this registry, the previous customer who paid for the spec could enter the number of defects that arose during develooment due to inadequacies in the functional spec.
Would the resulting information in the registry differ in principle from the kind of information which (I believe) is currently available to prospective patients regarding OR mortality rates of possible prospective surgeons?
(PS - that was not the upcoming 'rant' topic I have in mind ... it's way too obvious for anyone who's been around the block once or twice.)
Best
djh

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they did great job... nice...
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So when I SEE something done well, like your edit , and the product etc. I really appreciate it.
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water ...

Well, I'm back on an SAP gig more quickly than I expected.. Sorry for the false alarm.
Due to the nature of the gig, I won't be maintaining as high a profile here at Coffee Corner ... I know that will please many and disappoint few.
But I will be asking my usual questions in the relevant Forums, and I hope to get as much help from the usual suspects as I have in the past (Uwe, Rich, Suresh, a@s, nxo ... apologies to anyone I've left out.)
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Damn it...! </kicking self> ... I thought of responding to your "Goodbye cruel world" post with an "I am sure you will be back", but didn't.
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Just when Anton thought it was safe to go back in the water ... !

Psst - Anton - I'm BACK (in the Scripting Languages forum).
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How would you code this in Perl/PHP etc.?
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Edited by: David Halitsky on Jun 30, 2010 11:26 PM

Damn it...! </kicking self> ... I thought of responding to your "Goodbye cruel world" post with an "I am sure you will be back", but didn't.
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Just When You Thought Scary Snakes Were Bad

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Geesus... BIll ! I was scared enough before this...just about life in general...now I'm shaking in my boots !
hehe... good shark music.. I think Steven S used that same composer for a bunch of his work ??? Seem to think that for some reason...
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