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A cut-over plan for a Business Central go-live: what happens on Friday night, Saturday and Sunday, who does what, what gets reconciled, and the two points at which you decide whether to go or roll back.
Read more →Projects · 3 Nov 2026Go-live is not the end of the project. The first month is where a new Business Central system is either bedded in or quietly abandoned for spreadsheets. What normal looks like, what counts as a defect, and when to hand over to support.
Read more →Projects · 3 Nov 2026Every Business Central project has a data migration and every project underestimates it. What to bring, what to leave behind, how to clean it, and why "reconciled to the penny, twice" is the only acceptable standard.
Read more →Projects · 3 Nov 2026Go live with everything on one weekend, or finance first and operations later? Both work. Both fail. The honest trade-offs, the question that usually decides it, and the one phasing that almost never works.
Read more →Projects · 3 Nov 2026Every business moving to Business Central has a list of things the old system did "just for us". Most of them should not survive the move. How to run the fit-gap honestly, the "we have always done it this way" trap, and the three questions that decide what gets rebuilt.
Read more →Projects · 3 Nov 2026The super user is the role that makes UAT work, keeps the spreadsheets from coming back and turns hypercare into a fortnight instead of a quarter. Who to pick, what they actually do in each phase, what it costs the business, and why it should be recognised in their pay.
Read more →Projects · 3 Nov 2026A partner with hundreds of staff and a thousand projects can still have nobody who has worked in your industry, a queue you will wait in, and a price to match. How to look at a Business Central partner as a business in its own right: industry experience, case studies, site visits, and whether they will still be here at go-live.
Read more →Projects · 3 Nov 2026Too small and it will not do what you need. Too big and you are paying for things you will never use. Just right has to scale with you. A plain-English guide to the three tiers of business software, where Xero, Sage, Business Central and the big suites sit, and how to tell which one is the right size for your business.
Read more →Projects · 3 Nov 2026The companion to our piece on why ERP projects fail. Seven things the projects that come in on time, on budget and actually used have in common, what the research adds, and the checklist I published in 2017 that still holds.
Read more →Projects · 3 Nov 2026Nine well-documented ERP failures, from a confectioner to a UK council. The headline failure rates are shakier than the vendors admit, but the post-mortems agree on the same handful of causes. Here they are, with what to do about each one on a Business Central project.
Read more →Projects · 3 Nov 2026UT, SIT and UAT are three different gates, and training should start in Analysis, not the week before go-live. Here is where each one sits in the six Sure Step phases, and why a manufacturing or warehousing project takes longer than the standard timeline.
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