Methodology Workshop: Keeping developments under control

We have have participated in today's workshop on executing a successful Odoo implementation, which Fabien Pinckaers, the founder and CEO of ​Odoo, conducted. He shared many insights, practical tips, and innovative tricks, which I'm summarising here.


Tips and Tricks:

📝 Write clear specifications to get quick validation from clients and reduce re-work possibility during development (Customization) using the following tool:
​https://lnkd.in/dzE3Kjdq or ​https://excalidraw.com/

📝 Four questions worth asking while initiating any customization request:
Is it necessary to do it now?
Is it worth the cost?
Is the gain enough?
Is there any other approach? (by adopting standard Odoo functionality)

📝 Hiring developer doing pre-qualification using ​https://coderbyte.com/ tool.



The following are valuable insights shared by Fabien in this workshop:

1️⃣ How to know and control unnecessary customization in Odoo.
2️⃣ How to write a clean specification: learned to distinguish between poor and good specifications.
3️⃣ Automated testing and CI with ​Odoo.sh
4️⃣ Tips for scanning and hiring a new Odoo developer
5️⃣ The entire training plan for the new developers
6️⃣ How to deal with a lack of resources while executing many Odoo projects
7️⃣ Project success parameters: staying on-time and on-budget - How to maintain them?

Many such online workshops are in the queue.
You can follow Odoo events to attend the next workshop.