The price we are willing to pay for goods or services depends on the cost of alternatives available, including the alternative of doing nothing. Easy, weigh up the benefits, and compare those to the cost, right? Well, yes and no.

Enterprise grade business applications without the enterprise grade price-tag or headache? Entrepreneurs and small business owners - read on!

It seemed such a great idea at the time - implementing the new business application. The benefits would be realised without question. But where are the benefits when all is done?

No matter what the indicators of failure are (either time, budget, scope, or any combination of these), or the construct of the project (Agile, Time and Material, Fixed Fee) - there are several mandatory steps and conditions to ensure any recovery is successful in getting the project back on track.

Over the years, the methodologies to implement business systems, ERP and CRM, have evolved. Especially the vendor developed methodologies are constantly refined. However, a trend that has been taking off with the cloud adoption is Agile.