End of the day. Big or small, its not the tools its the business process that the tools are built around. Crawl, walk, Run; stop looking for the perfect solution. Start off with Excel get your process down so its clock work. New hire has accepted. This should be a cue for the hiring manager to start his process and not rely on HR. You don’t want HR allowing folks access to your production systems. Once its all down and working you look at what steps can be automated. Bite off chunks as they come at you and end the pursuit for the perfect system, it doesn’t exist.

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