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Establishing business requirements for software selection
Establishing business requirements for software selection

Weighing the importance of software features The following ILTA KM publication describes principles that apply to all sorts of product-selection projects, not just to search.  Clarify has the definitions that Cersys uses.   In addition to impact ranking, it is helpful to consider when the feature will be needed.  Something might be business-critical in the long run,…

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User Scenarios and Use Cases
User Scenarios and Use Cases

Use cases and user scenarios: These design constructs are a long-time favourite in the Cersys project toolbox. The origin lies in larger-scale software development – early 1990’s – and we now apply them to consultation for software configuration and customization for our customers in the legal vertical.  They sound impressive and helpful, but what does it…

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Import design patterns – Content Migration best practices
Import design patterns – Content Migration best practices

Choosing a simple, complete set of patterns: the meat-and-potatoes of a content migration analysis.  How do you take the ‘raw’ content on a network drive, and move it into a document management system with ‘the right’ metadata? How will you accomplish this on-budget and on-time? Make the hard choices during business analysis – to determine…

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A Healthy Email Policy

An email policy is crucial to define clear limits to personal use of a firm’s email system, and to establish the right to monitor email. This post describes several key points and summarizes best practices.