PIT / IDEAS
What we've learned the hard way.
Mistakes, decisions and findings that came from building, operating and fixing software. If we have nothing to add from experience, we do not publish it.
03 / NOTES ARCHIVE / IN MOTION SCROLL ↓
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Operations
02 The spreadsheet was not the problem. The process outgrew it.
Signs that a spreadsheet stopped being a tool and started carrying inventory, approvals and operational memory.
Reconciliations
03 Reconciliation does not fail because of arithmetic. It fails when nobody trusts the same data.
Before automating reconciliation, define what it actually means for two movements to match.
IoT
The sensor worked. Deciding what the alert should trigger was harder.
Measuring temperature, status or consumption is only half the job when data has to become an action.