2. Let’s jump into number two, business logic. This probably only applies 10 to 20% of the time. This is certainly true for people in the room, they’re businesses, they used to run them on spreadsheets. By that I mean, there are people in the room who have quite sophisticated financial calculation businesses. So they would go out to clients, they would help them do an analysis of some part of their business and they would do that in a spreadsheet. But the spreadsheet had the problem of distributing it, version control, losing it and a whole range of bits and pieces. Effectively what their business was, building a website that reproduced the spreadsheet functionality and put permissions and put a range of range of bits and pieces around it. That is what the business actually is. If that is your scenario, if the middle blue box we had a moment ago, the business processing piece, could be represented by a spreadsheet and you’re good at spreadsheets, and some people aren’t but if you are, and a lot of people in this room happen to be, make the spreadsheet. It’s a good way to communicate with your developer and say this is the map. Developers can pull spreadsheets apart and when it works, it works really well. So it is an accurate communication of the rules and you use spreadsheets to do this.

3. IN THIS VIDEO: Ben Stickland, the founder of Alliance Software, talks about how spreadsheets make a great way to communicate with your developers.

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