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Auto-closing a case workflow

January 6, 2011   A colleague asked me recently about an email he had received from the support department of one of our vendors. It looked something like:     Hello, Anne Teak, A few days ago, our support staff has replied your inquiry at: http://www.some.vendor.com/helpdesk/view-thread.aspx?thread=735746   Since then, we have not received any response back from you, and would like to know if you consider this issue to be closed. If you have any further questions, please use the link above to post them. This issue will be automatically closed out in a few days if you choose not to respond.   To access this discussion thread, navigate to the following link: http://www.some.vendor.com/helpdesk/view-thread.aspx?thread=735746     Sincerely yours, Some.Vendor Team       The gist of the process is that if a customer hasn’t responded after a certain period of time, then we…

Snackbyte: Implementation services should include source-code control

November 15, 2007 This is just a little snackbyte that I was thinking about today: Implementation services should include source-code control. Meaning, when a vendor helps a customer with implementation of the vendors product, part of the service should include source-code control. Not maybe. Not an extra cost. It's just part of the deal. Our implementations include custom web pages, config files, schema change files, dat files, etc. These should all be under version control. If the customer has an existing source code control system, great - use it. If not, put one in place. Subversion is free, is easy to use, and works great. Show the customer the value and ease of using a good source code control product. Just another way to add value to the customer. And when everyone starts doing this - take it to the next level. How…