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: Governance
SharePoint Webcasts: Reporting Services for the Really Really Good Looking
Last year, Peter Serzo and I presented at the SharePoint Best Practices Conference in DC. We did an extremely serious talk called “SharePoint and SQL Reporting Services 2008 for the really really good looking” which rated rather well. As part …
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A roving we will go…
Hi all I am finding it increasingly difficult to find the time to post at the moment. Too many projects, too many initiatives and too many evil plans coming to fruition. It’s like every seed I planted last year suddenly …
SharePoint Saturday Perth Wrap and SP2010 BOOTCAMPS!
Well, the event that I never thought would ever happen in Perth happened, and not only did it happen, it had more interest than expected and some people unfortunately missed out. Jeremy, as a result, had to take many upset …
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The problem with sales guys… (a peek into complex adaptive systems)
Vulgarity warning. Its the silly season, I am winding down and being more low-brow than usual with this post There is this wonderful way to look at the world, through a lens of something called “Complex adaptive systems”. Unfortunately with …
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SBS 2008, Hewlett Packard, WSS3, Search Server 2008 Express and a UPS – Oh the pain!
In the words of Doctor Smith from lost in space, while everyone else was in Vegas having a grand old time, I was at a client site, having to come to grips with the beast known as Windows Small Business …
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A simple way to improve your estimating (and a cool pub trick) – Conclusion
…and we’re back! Well… that was a long commercial break wasn’t it 🙂 In case you missed part 1 of our version of the show “deal or no deal”, you missed the big cliff-hanger and you really should read part …
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A simple way to improve your estimating (and a cool pub trick) – Part 1
Okay I’ll admit it, I used to really suck as a time and effort estimator. I happen to have a business partner who is much better at it than me (hey Peter), and every time I sought a second opinion …
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“Folders are bad” and other urban legends…
Hi all This post is somewhat related to the whole “Zen and the art of SharePoint governance” idea where the notion of a “best practice” is so culture and context dependent that the worst practice is to insist that your …
The practice of Dialogue Mapping – Part 3
Hi there and welcome to part 3 of my series on the practice of Dialogue Mapping in the real-world. To recap, in part 1, I provided a brief overview of Dialogue Mapping and in part 2, I described a common …