I'm grateful to have participated in today's workshop on executing a successful Odoo implementation, which Fabien Pinckaers, the founder 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://app.excalidraw.com/ 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.