http://www.blog.methodsinexcel.co.uk/2006/03/21/development-time-and-value-to-business/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:39:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 http://www.blog.methodsinexcel.co.uk/2006/03/21/development-time-and-value-to-business/#comment-71 Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:45:37 +0000 http://www.blog.methodsinexcel.co.uk/2006/03/21/development-time-and-value-to-business/#comment-71 Arrrr! Errors! , I missed that out out, but it's a key justification for automation, as i guess employee motivation is too! Thanks Rich. Arrrr!
Errors! , I missed that out out, but it’s a key justification for automation, as i guess employee motivation is too! Thanks Rich.

]]> http://www.blog.methodsinexcel.co.uk/2006/03/21/development-time-and-value-to-business/#comment-66 Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:43:51 +0000 http://www.blog.methodsinexcel.co.uk/2006/03/21/development-time-and-value-to-business/#comment-66 On Monday a co-worker had a Finace Excel wizard try to help her set up a monthly file for her use (which will now be a monthly requirement). This Finance person was remarkably fast with key board (much faster than me), and she took ten minutes to do the most of the work - but it would have taken her another two hours to get the co-worker to learn how to do it, but not nearly as fast; and there would have been more to do after that. I watched this, and told the co-worker to send my the original file. Within an hour I had written four snippets of code and combined them into a super macro, that did everything requested. Total time for me - 45 minutes. I had her try it, then put a button on her toolbar. The co-worker tried it - it takes 1 second. I haven't compared the math, but the code will save this co-worker a minimum of 14 minutes and 59 seconds every month. So in three months the cost is recovered. But even more important, the errors in the manual way would slow the process for her (to get for errors), so realistically the time spent getting the code will be made up in two cycles (this month and next). On Monday a co-worker had a Finace Excel wizard try to help her set up a monthly file for her use (which will now be a monthly requirement). This Finance person was remarkably fast with key board (much faster than me), and she took ten minutes to do the most of the work - but it would have taken her another two hours to get the co-worker to learn how to do it, but not nearly as fast; and there would have been more to do after that. I watched this, and told the co-worker to send my the original file. Within an hour I had written four snippets of code and combined them into a super macro, that did everything requested. Total time for me - 45 minutes. I had her try it, then put a button on her toolbar. The co-worker tried it - it takes 1 second. I haven’t compared the math, but the code will save this co-worker a minimum of 14 minutes and 59 seconds every month. So in three months the cost is recovered. But even more important, the errors in the manual way would slow the process for her (to get for errors), so realistically the time spent getting the code will be made up in two cycles (this month and next).

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