Two years ago, I wrote a post What UX and Airports Have in Common based on my travel experience. In this sequel, following a recent road trip around West Oregon, I continue learning from the hospitality industry. In the post-pandemic…
SAP Clean Core strategy has evolved significantly since its introduction. When SAP first unveiled the "clean core" concept, the messaging was confusing and left many customers wondering if they were expected to survive on SAP standard alone. But as the…
This year, ABAPConf - the prime event for SAP ABAP developers - took place in person across several locations in Germany and Austria, in addition to the usual YouTube livestream. I had the privilege of attending and presenting in beautiful…
SAP just announced the general availability of Joule for developers and ABAP AI capabilities. As is frequently the case, this generated a lot of buzz and excitement but also confusion in the ABAP developer community. Below I will try to…
Just like the physical mining for ores or minerals, business process mining extracts data from enterprise IT systems. The goal of such activity is to discover, analyze, monitor, and improve business processes. Process mining solutions have been around for a…
ASUG Tech Connect conference will take place in New Orleans on November 7-9. I’m honored to have an opportunity to present at the event together with SAP Mentor and Mindset alum Paul Modderman. We will be speaking about upskilling and…
Folks, As I go about my daily life, I tend to observe things and then think how they relate to my work. It’s a blessing and a curse. When working for an insurance company, for instance, I could not watch…
It was the early 2010s. Our team was in charge of SAP support for a large global company gathered in a conference room where a person whom we had never met before was going to show us the new IT…
This blog is almost a year overdue since my 50th birthday was in September 2020. But I just kept forgetting to post it. Ba dum tss. This is my first “senior joke”, ha-ha! No, I am not losing my marbles…
The book Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin was published in 2008 with the tagline: “Even bad code can function. But if the code isn't clean, it can bring a development organization to its…