…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 »
I have been reading a bunch of material about sense-making. Most of online at various websites (that shall remain nameless), written by people who are scary smart. Essentially I always am looking for stuff that might augment Dialogue Mapping and …
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 …
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 …
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 »
Hi there. Welcome to part 2 of a series of articles on the craft of Dialogue Mapping – something that forms a significant chunk of my SharePoint and non SharePoint work. In the “One best practice” series of articles, I …
Hi all Just a quick note to let you know that I will be speaking at the Perth leg of the BusinessAnalystWorld conference this week. My topic is called “IBIS: The one best practice for managing wicked problems" and I …
Hiya For those who do not regularly read CleverworkArounds, I have a bit of a split career-personality where half my working life is spent as a SharePoint practitioner and the other half as a sort of facilitator, based around the …
I had a problem this week that got resolved with something quite obvious, but I learned a lot in the process, so I am detailing it here. Symptoms: Using MOSS 2007 SP2 and Office 2003 SP3, users complained that metadata …
Missing metadata with Office 2003 – yet another “duh” moment… Read more »