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 »

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 »

Oh man, it’s just not my week. After nailing a certificate issue yesterday that killed user profile provisioning, I get an even better one today! I’ve posted it here as a lesson on how not to troubleshoot this issue! The …

Why me? Web part errors on new web applications 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 »

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 …

SBS 2008, Hewlett Packard, WSS3, Search Server 2008 Express and a UPS – Oh the pain! Read more »

…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 …

A simple way to improve your estimating (and a cool pub trick) – Conclusion 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 »

Today I presented a session at the Perth SharePoint Users Group. I was a little unsure whether my non-technically focussed content would be of interest to the geeks but the turnout was terrific and the feedback has been brilliant. (The …

Perth SharePoint Users Group wrap Read more »