This is the first part of a multi-part talk about a successful use of MVP to create a framework for proving and building products quickly. I’m a huge fan of lightweight. Lightweight tools, lightweight management, lightweight processes. Weed out the overhead by not even allowing it in to the system in the first place. Thus, [...]

I had to break out some perl skills today. I was little rusty as I haven’t used it in volume for 2-3 years. However, it was the right tool for the job today. One of our rainmakers needed a favor for building a conversion table from an old Chart of Accounts to the newest version. All they had was a spreadsheet of about 4000 items where column “A” housed a formula of seemingly random numbers from column “B”. The assignments from old to new were a mixture of single elements and cell ranges that made it difficult, if not impossible to handle in Excel.