I was too late
My passion is to help manufacturing companies make good decisions about manufacturing systems and have those systems provide good value the the company. I like to refer to it sometimes as “I try to keep people from doing stupid stuff.” Well today I was too late.
I met with a smaller company today that I have been watching from afar for a while. They have spent WAY TOO MUCH money on a simple application that they want to help them run manufacturing better. This application has some functionality that exists in an old FileMaker Pro database application and the task was to bring forward that functionality and add to it.
The developer they hired to write the new application chose Oracle (the free express version) because that is what they knew. Now the company is between a rock and a hard place because the developer is not done, they are way over budget, the application is not tested yet, and there is more scope they would really like to complete!!!
I was too late! Tune in next post for what I would have done differently…
