by Gabriele Albarosa | Sep 2, 2020 | Homepage, Platform
In a large organisation, for every core system (e.g.: HR, Finance, Operations, Sales) you will find a hundred spreadsheets. Is it bad? Let’s start with a simple yardstick, devised from personal experience: The Rule of One A spreadsheet – the Swiss Army...
by Gabriele Albarosa | Jul 28, 2020 | Homepage, Platform, Quality Assurance
Only a few weeks ago, 25,000 people were hired for NHS England’s Track and Trace program. In a digital world, where machine learning and AI have become familiar terms, the need for so many analog humans may come as a surprise. The Tracking challenge is...
by Gabriele Albarosa | Jul 14, 2020 | Debtor Tracking
Not all users are created the same. Some are standard, some are admins, some are arrows or paper planes. Look at the picture in the header: the woman represents the “standard user” looking at charts she has access to according to her user credentials (in...
by Gabriele Albarosa | Jun 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
Better hurry writing this post… with many COVID-19 restrictions imminently lifted, we’ll soon forget about lockdown. Tossed into socially distanced twilight zones, we suddenly had to fill – between four walls and the local park – those chunks...
by Gabriele Albarosa | Jun 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
An “expert” is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field. This quote from Niels Bohr (Nobel prize for physics in 1922) suggests a central role for mistakes in scientific discovery. Still, publicly sharing mistakes is kind of...