Comments on: Amateur Professionals http://blog.danmcweeney.com/32 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:38:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Thomas Otter http://blog.danmcweeney.com/32/comment-page-1#comment-2383 Thomas Otter Thu, 05 Jul 2007 07:38:52 +0000 http://blog.danmcweeney.com/32#comment-2383 Dan, thanks for the follow up. You are indeed right, complexity is sometimees necessary, but less of the time than we imagine it to be. But I'd like to see us reveal that complexity in an onion like way. If what you are doing is complex and you need that complexity to succeed, then the application should provide you will the right level of functionality to succeed. No more, no less. Excel, photoshop etc do this well. There are some areas where SAP does this very well. Transaction codes is a great example. For the experienced user, type in a couple of numbers and you are exactly where you need to be. You pick them up as you go a long. This is goodness. Just dont force on casual users. Dan,
thanks for the follow up. You are indeed right, complexity is sometimees necessary, but less of the time than we imagine it to be.

But I’d like to see us reveal that complexity in an onion like way. If what you are doing is complex and you need that complexity to succeed, then the application should provide you will the right level of functionality to succeed. No more, no less. Excel, photoshop etc do this well.

There are some areas where SAP does this very well. Transaction codes is a great example. For the experienced user, type in a couple of numbers and you are exactly where you need to be. You pick them up as you go a long. This is goodness. Just dont force on casual users.

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