Why Schools Still Run on Spreadsheets (opens in new tab)

The most successful school-management system ever built has no logo, no onboarding flow, and no sales team. It is the spreadsheet. Before any of us showed up with a product, a school's timetable, its fee ledger, its mark sheets, and its staff list already lived in a grid of cells that someone maintained by hand. If you want to build software schools actually adopt, the first thing to do is stop treating the spreadsheet as the enemy and start treating it as the incumbent that beat everyone els...