Well, I just got struck alongside the head with a frying pan again. I was in the process of rebuilding my customer system, and moving in my transports. Well, the short story is that it’s been a lot harder than it needed to be. I broke things up into so many pieces so that it would be easier to package them when it came to sell them, but still keep them modular, so I can sell individual pieces rather than the whole package…
Well, there were so many things wrong with that whole approach, now that I finally see it. First, I figured out I don’t need a “namespace” for ever little product I make. I probably needed at most, 2 namespaces. And looking back… could’ve just done it with one. For those SAP geeks out there, I was using the namespace like a package… when in reality, I should’ve just been using packages :)…
Now, for the dilemma… how much time and effort am I willing to put forth to clean this up. Since sales have been “meager”, it means that I do still have the clean slate option to fix it before my next sale. But even though it is a copy and paste exercise, it could be quite an extensive exercise. So either myself, or I have to hire someone to copy/delete, copy/delete/copy delete… for hours on end. Now the question comes in… where is the value add of this activity?
Well, there are some minor value adds… first off, we could shorter the names of our transactions. Simplify the structure of everything I’m doing. Back it a whole lot easier to share code among the different applications… but most of it is all on the back end. The cost of doing this is that me or someone else isn’t working on the new offerings. looks like I need to give this some thought…
as always, I welcome your comments,
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