Why I’ve been quiet…
As you may have noticed, this blog has been a bit of a dead zone lately. There are several very good reasons for this – one being that a lot of my creative energy has been going into co-writing a …
Category: COBiT
The one best practice to rule them all – Part 1
This is a post or three that I have really been looking forward to writing, and it is a long time in the making for various reasons. Some of you, after reading it, will no doubt wonder if I have …
"Ain’t it cool?" – Integrating SharePoint and real-time performance data – Part 2
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 …
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"Ain’t it cool?" – Integrating SharePoint and real-time performance data – Part 1
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 …
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Why do SharePoint Projects Fail? – Part 8
Hi Well, here we are at part 8 in a series of posts dedicated to the topic of SharePoint project failure. Surely after 7 posts, you would think that we are exhausting the various factors that can have a negative …
Compliance is about to get worse…
I think SharePoint is an excellent platform for quality improvement, PMO and compliance efforts. But this is a non SharePoint oriented post. I’m sick of writing nerdy stuff at the moment. In 2001, the supposedly blue chip US multinational called …
SharePoint Branding Part 7 -The ‘governance’ of it all..
Well, here we are! After delving into dark arts where everybody but metrosexual web designers fear to tread (HTML and CSS), we then delved into the areas that metrosexual web designers truly fear to tread (packaging, deployment and even some …
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IT Governance Standards: COBIT, ISO17799/27001, ITIL and PMBOK – Part 4
The content of this blog is essentially material I compiled for training sessions that I ran last year. It was originally PowerPoint, but I hope that this blog version is useful. Some of the legislative stuff is probably now out …
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IT Governance Standards: COBIT, ISO17799/27001, ITIL and PMBOK – Part 3
The content of this blog is essentially material I compiled for training sessions that I ran last year. It was originally PowerPoint, but I hope that this blog version is useful. Some of the legislative stuff is probably now out …
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IT Governance Standards: COBIT, ISO17799/27001, ITIL and PMBOK – Part 2
The content of this blog is essentially material I compiled for training sessions that I ran last year. It was originally PowerPoint, but I hope that this blog version is useful. Some of the legislative stuff is probably now out …
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