What we keep noticing · Field Notes
Making peaceis a good thing.
Except when it comes to your ERP.
Every note begins with something everybody accepted.
And ends with the question nobody asked.
It always startswith something ordinary.
Chapter 1
The assumptions.
Most assumptions survivebecause nobody remembers making them.
These are the ones we wrote downbefore they disappeared into the furniture.
The assumption
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Some questions should not require a project.NoteSome questions should not require a project. · 1 min13 October 2026
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Your specialists were hired to run SAP. Not to remember it.NoteYour Sherpa on Mount SAP. · 2 min20 October 2026
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The ERP estate remembers people who no longer work here.NoteEvery mature SAP estate has a ghost story. · 2 min27 October 2026
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Most organisations think they run one estate. They pay for two.NoteFour rain gauges. One number in the book. · 3 min3 November 2026
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The first finding should arrive before the first commitment.NoteNobody buys a bakkie from a brochure. · 3 min10 November 2026
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Enterprises grow up like we do, and they leave footprints.FilmThe story already written. · 1:1718 October 2026
Chapter 2
How solid is solid?
Everybody talks about moving.Nobody talks about measuring the decision to stay.
The distinction
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Age is a number. Condition is evidence.ArticleHow solid is solid? · 2 min6 November 2026
The strange partwas never the answer.
It was what we'd stopped questioning.