When spreadsheets are perceived negatively, it devalues the entire Excel eco-system. The common problems we have with current spreadsheet practice were solved, in...
Archive - November 2019
I’m following Laurentz’s article. This is going to be interesting. (25/11/2019) I’ve kicked it off like this: There’s a presumption that...
Well, this video has been a preview for a few weeks now – hoping to get some feedback from those interested in preventing spreadsheet risk. None so far. But the...
This is a blog about the (hitherto unheard of) technical terms that keep coming into our spreadsheet language. Some of them make traditional spreadsheet users frightened...
The thing called ‘Spreadsheet Hell’ (that’s what the IT industry call it) originates from traditional spreadsheet practices that haven’t changed...
I’m Hiran de Silva. An expert in FUTURE-PROOFING SPREADSHEETS, and author of a training program on this. And blogger, but that’s self evident. Why future...
I’m familiar with the Twenty Principles of Good Spreadsheet Practice, published by the ICAEW in 2013. In 2016 they published the Spreadsheet Competency Framework...
Introduction This is a thought experiment. You don’t actually have to do anything. Just THINK about HOW you would do it. As you can see from the lack of many words...
My colleague from twenty years ago (!) Tony Wong, now in Sydney, makes a great point in our chat today. When we worked together at Edexcel (now Pearsons Education) we...
I watch with fascination. In recent years, various sections of the IT industry have been trying to invent a spreadsheet that has as much of the functionality of Excel as...