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By Posted on Posted in Governance, Infrastructure, ITIL, planning, Project Management, Risk, SAN, Sarbanes-Oxley, Security, SharePoint, SQL Server, Storage, Strategy 15 Comments

think as you age, you become more and more like your parents. Not so long ago I went out paintballing with some friends and we all agreed that the 16-18 year olds who also happened to be there were all obnoxious little twerps who needed a good kick in the rear. At the same time, we also agreed that we were just as obnoxious back when we were that age. Your perspective changes as you learn and your experience grows, but you don’t forget where you came from…

SharePoint, for a number of reasons, is one of those products that has a way of really laying bare any gaps that the organisation has in terms of their overall maturity around technology and strategy…

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By Posted on Posted in Governance, Infrastructure, Risk, SharePoint, SQL Server, Strategy 4 Comments Tagged with , , ,

  I am working on an essay about IT complexity at the moment, and one thing that sprung into my mind while thinking about this, is the fact that many of my clients seem to think I am some sort …

SQL God? No… I just know how to do a maintenance plan Read more »

By Posted on Posted in COBiT, Collaboration, Governance, Infrastructure, ISO17799/27001, ITIL, NETFLOW, OSISoft, PERFMON, PI, planning, real-time, Sarbanes-Oxley, SharePoint, SNMP, Web Parts, WMI 7 Comments

Hi again This article is the second half of a pair of articles explaining how I integrated real-time performance data with an SharePoint based IT operational portal, designed around the principle of passive compliance with legislative or organisational controls. In …

"Ain’t it cool?" – Integrating SharePoint and real-time performance data – Part 2 Read more »

By Posted on Posted in COBiT, Governance, Infrastructure, ISO17799/27001, ITIL, NETFLOW, OSISoft, PERFMON, PI, planning, real-time, Sarbanes-Oxley, SharePoint, SNMP, Strategy, WMI 3 Comments

Hi This is one of those nerdy posts in the category of "look at me! look at me! look at what I did, isn’t it cool?". Normally application developers write posts like this, demonstrating some cool bit of code they …

"Ain’t it cool?" – Integrating SharePoint and real-time performance data – Part 1 Read more »

By Posted on Posted in Collaboration, Finance, Governance, Infrastructure, planning, Project Management, Risk, ROE, SharePoint, Strategy, Wicked Problems No Comments

This post is going a little off-track from the previous 5 posts around SharePoint project failure and I promise I will get back on track again soon. I felt that I had to talk about this topic while we are …

Globalisation, Strategy, Technology and Organisational Maturity Read more »