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: Sarbanes-Oxley
Complexity bites: When SharePoint = Risk
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…
"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 …
Why do SharePoint Projects Fail? Part 4
Hi again Welcome to part 4 of this series, which examines the factors that contribute to SharePoint projects causing much pain and suffering among project teams. Each post has started with some attempt at humour, before getting into some theory. …
More on SOX and subprime
In 2002, a high profile client asked the company I was involved with what our position/compliance was on ISO17799. The managing director called me up and asked if I could “put something together for him” by the next day. So …
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 …