Hi and welcome back to this series aimed at making SharePoint performance management a little more digestible. In the first post we examined the difference between lead and lag indicators and in the second post, we specifically looked at the …

Demystifying SharePoint Performance Management Part 3 – Getting at RPS Read more »

Hi all I never mentioned it in the first post that the reason I am blogging again is I finally completed most of the game Skyrim. Man – that game is dangerous if you value your time! Anyway, in the …

Demystifying SharePoint Performance Management Part 2 – So what is RPS anyway? Read more »

Hi all It seems to me that many SharePoint consultancies think their job is done when recommending a topology based on: Looking up Microsoft’s server recommendations for CPU and RAM and then doubling them for safety Giving the SQL Database …

Demystifying SharePoint Performance Management Part 1 – How to stop developers blaming the infrastructure Read more »

Hi all I think its a sure bet that many of you, for your various sins, perform “stakeholder engagement” as part of delivering solutions to your clients or organisations. I also bet that many of you would not be aware …

Engaging with stakeholders–did you know there is a standard for it? Read more »

Hi all Just a quick note for those of you who are of the academic persuasion or who have an interest in research and academic literature. Kailash and I wrote a paper for the International Journal for Managing Projects in …

I’m published in a PM Journal Read more »

   Hi all There are a couple of conferences happening this month that you should seriously consider attending. The New Zealand and Australian SharePoint Community Conferences. This year things have changed. There are over 50 Sessions designed to cater to …

Warts and all SharePoint caveats in Melbourne and Auckland Read more »

Hi all and welcome to my 6th post on the weird and wonderful world of cloud computing. The recurring theme in this series has been to point out that the technological aspects of cloud computing have never really been the …

The cloud isn’t the problem–Part 6: The pros and cons of patriotism Read more »

Hi all You would think that after years of installing SharePoint in various scenarios, that I would be able to get past step 3 in the configuration wizard (the step that creates the configuration database). But today I almost got …

An obscure “failed to create the configuration database” issue… Read more »

“That’s only 10%…” One of my mentors who is mentioned in the book I wrote with Kailash (Darryl) is a veteran project manager in the construction and engineering industry. He has been working as a project manager more than 30 …

On the decay (or remarkable recurrence) of knowledge Read more »