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“The Build versus Buy Decision from Journyx

The build versus buy decision is often a hard one since software vendors routinely over-hype their products. Buying point products that are “best of breed” and simple enough to be piloted in your environment with your data is the only way to get past the hype. Buying suite products that attempt to automate everything imaginable, always entails a high upfront cost and a high risk of project failure. Some vendors have gotten this message and are starting to modularize their products.”

>> For our internal time tracking, we installed and tried a lot of third party applications and weren’t satisfied with any of them…so we built our own. It is time consuming building your own tools…if you can find a third party tool that’s affordable and does what you need it to do there usually is not a compelling reason to re-invent the wheel. – Michael

We officially decided to take our Task Tracker and redevelop it. It has been a valuable tool for us to keep organized and efficient. We know where all of our man-hours go whether they are billable or not. We were doing a poor job of tracking time prior to developing it.

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Do you ever feel there is not enough time to do everything you want? Do you ever end the day with a list of things-to-do? Do you ever finish the week with more you need to get done?