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SharePoint Fatigue Syndrome

By admin Posted on October 12, 2011 Posted in Business Analysis, Business Process Management, Collaboration, Governance, Human Process Management, Knowledge management, Non Linear Process, organisational culture, planning, Process Improvement, Project Management, Risk, shared understanding, SharePoint, social fragmentation, Strategy, user engagement, web2.0, Wicked Problems 32 Comments

Hiya I have been wrong about many things – I am happy to admit that. In SharePoint land, one of my bigger naive assumptions was that in early 2007, I figured I’d have maybe a 6 month head start before …

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Whatever you do, do not ignore legacy

By admin Posted on May 22, 2011 Posted in Analysis, Best Practices, Business Analysis, Collaboration, Envisioning, Facilitation, Governance, planning, Process Improvement, Project Management, Risk, SharePoint, Strategy, Wicked Problems 9 Comments

On the twitterverse recently, someone stated that because of a problem of excessive SharePoint site sprawl, they were going to institute a new site approval process. On the surface this remedy seems to be perfectly reasonable. After all, there is …

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Seattle is go! SharePoint Governance and Information Architecture class

By admin Posted on April 12, 2011 Posted in Analysis, Assurance, Best Practices, BPM, Business Analysis, Business Process Management, Collaboration, Conference, Dialogue mapping, Envisioning, Estimating, Facilitation, Finance, Governance, HPM, Human Process Management, IBIS, Information Architecture, Issue Mapping, Knowledge management, Managed Metadata, organisational culture, planning, Process Improvement, Project Management, Records Management, Risk, Seven Sigma, shared understanding, SharePoint, Speaking presentation, Strategy, Training, user engagement, web2.0, Wicked Problems, Workshop No Comments

For one night only USA… Ah, Erica Toelle – what a legend! Thanks to Erica and Fpweb, I’m thrilled to confirm that the Seattle SharePoint Governance and Information Architecture class is all systems go. Save the date as its very …

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The facets of collaboration part 5: It’s all Gen-Y’s fault – or is it?

By admin Posted on March 29, 2011 Posted in Analysis, Assurance, Best Practices, Business Analysis, Business Process Management, Collaboration, Envisioning, Facilitation, Governance, HPM, Human Process Management, IBIS, Information Architecture, Issue Mapping, Knowledge management, Managed Metadata, Non Linear Process, organisational culture, planning, Process Improvement, Project Management, Records Management, Risk, shared understanding, SharePoint, social fragmentation, Strategy, Training, user engagement, web2.0, Wicked Problems, Workflows 8 Comments

The facets of collaboration Part 1–Meet robot barbie The facets of collaboration Part 2–Enter the matrix! The facets of collaboration Part 3-The feature jigsaw The facets of collaboration Part 4 – BPM vs. HPM Hi all Welcome to another …

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Australian SharePoint Conference Community Challenge–How we did it.

By admin Posted on March 26, 2011 Posted in Assurance, Best Practices, Business Analysis, Collaboration, Dialogue mapping, Envisioning, Facilitation, Governance, IBIS, Information Architecture, Issue Mapping, planning, Process Improvement, Project Management, Seven Sigma, shared understanding, SharePoint, Speaking presentation, Strategy, Training, user engagement, Workshop 1 Comment

Hiya I recently participated in the Australian and New Zealand community SharePoint conferences and had a blast. First up, I was given the opportunity to keynote the Australian conference on day 2, where I spoke about SharePoint Governance home truths. …

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How to use Charlie Sheen to improve your estimating…

By admin Posted on March 14, 2011 Posted in Business Analysis, Charlie Sheen, Estimating, Finance, Governance, Monte Carlo, Offbeat, Project Management, Risk, Strategy 4 Comments Tagged with Charlie Sheen, estimating, monte Carlo, roi

Monte Carlo simulations are cool – very cool. in this post I am going to try and out-do Kailash Awati in trying to explain what they are. You see, I am one of these people who’s eyes glaze over the …

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Exciting news for Governance and Information Architecture classes

By admin Posted on February 10, 2011 Posted in 21apps, Assurance, Best Practices, Business Analysis, Business Process Management, Collaboration, Dialogue mapping, Governance, Human Process Management, IBIS, Information Architecture, Issue Mapping, Knowledge management, Managed Metadata, planning, Process Improvement, Project Management, Risk, SamePage, Seven Sigma, shared understanding, SharePoint, Speaking presentation, Strategy, user engagement, Wicked Problems, Workshop 2 Comments Tagged with SPIADC, SPIAIA, SPIANL, SPIAUK, SPITO

Hi all I just thought I would check-in with some updates on happenings and some upcoming travels. In less then 2 weeks now, I will be in London with Andrew Woodward and Ant Clay of 21apps for the second SharePoint …

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