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 The facets of collaboration Part …

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Hi all A big chunk of last year had me off under a metaphorical mushroom, putting together several days of courseware on the topic of SharePoint Governance and Information Architecture. My take on these topics are influenced from some odd …

More SharePoint Governance, Information Architecture and *Sensemaking* Classes Planned Read more »

Michal Pisarek wrote a nice write-up of what makes a good SharePoint Analyst. I feel I have something to offer here, given that I… am a cynical old bastard am an opinionated old bastard have had some opportunities that not …

SharePoint Analysts–Stop analysing! Read more »

I don’t know about you, but as a SharePoint practitioner, I love the fact that I do not do SharePoint full-time anymore. I’d like to take some time to explain why this is the case, and how my non IT …

Dialogue Mapping: The Ying to SharePoint Yang Read more »

The background Over the last three years, my career trajectory had altered somewhat where I spent half my time as a SharePoint practitioner, doing all of the things that us SharePoint practitioners do, and the other half was spent in …

A different kind of SharePoint Governance Master Class in London and Dublin Read more »

Having spoken at the odd SharePoint event over the last three years or so, I’ve always lamented on the lack of a purely business focused SharePoint conference. Whilst the conferences I attend do cater for non technology oriented topics – …

Share2010 – A new kind of SharePoint conference Read more »

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 …

Why I’ve been quiet… Read more »

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 …

The problem with sales guys… (a peek into complex adaptive systems) Read more »

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 …

A simple way to improve your estimating (and a cool pub trick) – Part 1 Read more »

Hi I attended and spoke at the Perth Business Analyst World Conference this week and really enjoyed it. This was a bit of a departure from the SharePoint events that I normally frequent, and I really didn’t know what to …

Am I a Business Analyst? What about those calling themselves BAs? Read more »