Comments on: "You’re not ready" – SharePoint kung fu http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2007/12/12/youre-not-ready-sharepoint-kung-fu/ After much frustration, it seems DEFAULT is the way to go... Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:45:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: A Dump of BPI links from my bookmarks, some useful some less so… | DaveBirchall.com on Business Technology http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2007/12/12/youre-not-ready-sharepoint-kung-fu/comment-page-1/#comment-38792 A Dump of BPI links from my bookmarks, some useful some less so… | DaveBirchall.com on Business Technology Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:34:05 +0000 http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2007/12/12/youre-not-ready-sharepoint-kung-fu/#comment-38792 [...] CleverWorkarounds » “You’re not ready” – SharePoint kung fu – A while back I tried to make records and collaborative document management an interesting blog topic by using death metal music to get my point across. Today I have another SharePoint related bone to pick with the world. … [...] [...] CleverWorkarounds » “You’re not ready” – SharePoint kung fu – A while back I tried to make records and collaborative document management an interesting blog topic by using death metal music to get my point across. Today I have another SharePoint related bone to pick with the world. … [...]

]]> By: wing chun training http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2007/12/12/youre-not-ready-sharepoint-kung-fu/comment-page-1/#comment-29935 wing chun training Mon, 03 May 2010 11:46:19 +0000 http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2007/12/12/youre-not-ready-sharepoint-kung-fu/#comment-29935 i gotta say this i came for the videos but stayed for the post,i have a moderate tech interest bit the way you have included some of the most kick but kunf fu scenes rox .. great idea and very informative thank you i gotta say this i came for the videos but stayed for the post,i have a moderate tech interest bit the way you have included some of the most kick but kunf fu scenes rox .. great idea and very informative thank you

]]> By: CleverWorkarounds » IT and the Corporate Immune Mechanism - the "Mother Hen" reflex http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2007/12/12/youre-not-ready-sharepoint-kung-fu/comment-page-1/#comment-1396 CleverWorkarounds » IT and the Corporate Immune Mechanism - the "Mother Hen" reflex Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:01:39 +0000 http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2007/12/12/youre-not-ready-sharepoint-kung-fu/#comment-1396 [...] with this ideal (which I wholeheartedly agree with by the way) is that there is the problem of the corporate immune mechanism that likes to get in the way of any ideal that disagrees with its own. I wrote about the corporate [...] [...] with this ideal (which I wholeheartedly agree with by the way) is that there is the problem of the corporate immune mechanism that likes to get in the way of any ideal that disagrees with its own. I wrote about the corporate [...]

]]> By: CleverWorkarounds » Selling MOSS (the moral of the story) http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2007/12/12/youre-not-ready-sharepoint-kung-fu/comment-page-1/#comment-182 CleverWorkarounds » Selling MOSS (the moral of the story) Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:58:46 +0000 http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2007/12/12/youre-not-ready-sharepoint-kung-fu/#comment-182 [...] The short term pain is based around me having to fast-track SharePoint product understanding at at infrastructure, application and governance level. This has to be performed among all the different IT department hearts and minds. This is not as straightforward as it may seem. Often IT people can actually take longer to ‘get it’ then non IT. As I demonstrated in the light-hearted version of this post, there are various different hearts and minds that have to be won over in different ways. (Some will never be won over) [...] [...] The short term pain is based around me having to fast-track SharePoint product understanding at at infrastructure, application and governance level. This has to be performed among all the different IT department hearts and minds. This is not as straightforward as it may seem. Often IT people can actually take longer to ‘get it’ then non IT. As I demonstrated in the light-hearted version of this post, there are various different hearts and minds that have to be won over in different ways. (Some will never be won over) [...]

]]> By: CleverWorkarounds » SharePoint reality TV? http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2007/12/12/youre-not-ready-sharepoint-kung-fu/comment-page-1/#comment-117 CleverWorkarounds » SharePoint reality TV? Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:52:27 +0000 http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2007/12/12/youre-not-ready-sharepoint-kung-fu/#comment-117 [...] "You’re not ready" - SharePoint kung fu [...] [...] "You’re not ready" – SharePoint kung fu [...]

]]> By: Wellick http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2007/12/12/youre-not-ready-sharepoint-kung-fu/comment-page-1/#comment-114 Wellick Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:11:11 +0000 http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2007/12/12/youre-not-ready-sharepoint-kung-fu/#comment-114 Clearly one of the best SharePoint posts I've read this year! Keep it up, please! Clearly one of the best SharePoint posts I’ve read this year! Keep it up, please!

]]> By: admin http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2007/12/12/youre-not-ready-sharepoint-kung-fu/comment-page-1/#comment-113 admin Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:21:56 +0000 http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2007/12/12/youre-not-ready-sharepoint-kung-fu/#comment-113 mikes will end up running his own shaolin school I'm sure :-) mikes will end up running his own shaolin school I’m sure :-)

]]> By: mikes http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2007/12/12/youre-not-ready-sharepoint-kung-fu/comment-page-1/#comment-112 mikes Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:54:03 +0000 http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2007/12/12/youre-not-ready-sharepoint-kung-fu/#comment-112 Excellent Enlightenment, MOSS Master. I’ll leave Don't know about marital arts, but I've seen a few remakes of the train wreck disaster movie! Outside of kung-fu films, things get in the way of nice business processes, making them complex and messy, just to sell a few movie tickets! That's the price of being a responsive and competitive business. However clean and BPRed it is today, it will get worse tomorrow. Although it’s a start, it can’t be a one-off job - it’s a continuous task – the ‘chi’ of a company. As technologists we have to cope with that complexity, flexibility and change. We’ve got to parry those organisational karate chops aimed at the underlying technology, and use the opponent’s strength to our advantage. Be ready. Whether you are automating the current complexity, or implementing the re-engineered process to meet real-work challenges, we have to have a dialogue – not a fight scene: Some business processes will have to change to match the capabilities of the technology, and some parts of the technology will have to be customised to match the processes. Ying and Yang. Find out how to talk to you CFO, and work out which will cost more in each case. To do this the business analysts and technologist have to understand each other and work together. Sometimes we’ll be getting down and dirty in the bowls of Sharepoint to bend it to our needs or provide the features we need, but conversely there are times when we are 90% of the way there out of the box, and it’s less impact for the business process to be altered to avoid costly customisation, support, upgrade nightmares etc. …because the sequel is often a lot worse than the original! Excellent Enlightenment, MOSS Master. I’ll leave

Don’t know about marital arts, but I’ve seen a few remakes of the train wreck disaster movie!

Outside of kung-fu films, things get in the way of nice business processes, making them complex and messy, just to sell a few movie tickets! That’s the price of being a responsive and competitive business. However clean and BPRed it is today, it will get worse tomorrow. Although it’s a start, it can’t be a one-off job – it’s a continuous task – the ‘chi’ of a company.

As technologists we have to cope with that complexity, flexibility and change. We’ve got to parry those organisational karate chops aimed at the underlying technology, and use the opponent’s strength to our advantage. Be ready.

Whether you are automating the current complexity, or implementing the re-engineered process to meet real-work challenges, we have to have a dialogue – not a fight scene: Some business processes will have to change to match the capabilities of the technology, and some parts of the technology will have to be customised to match the processes. Ying and Yang.

Find out how to talk to you CFO, and work out which will cost more in each case. To do this the business analysts and technologist have to understand each other and work together. Sometimes we’ll be getting down and dirty in the bowls of Sharepoint to bend it to our needs or provide the features we need, but conversely there are times when we are 90% of the way there out of the box, and it’s less impact for the business process to be altered to avoid costly customisation, support, upgrade nightmares etc.

…because the sequel is often a lot worse than the original!

]]> By: mattV http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2007/12/12/youre-not-ready-sharepoint-kung-fu/comment-page-1/#comment-111 mattV Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:03:54 +0000 http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2007/12/12/youre-not-ready-sharepoint-kung-fu/#comment-111 EXCELLENT POST! I'm a new fan of CleverWorkArounds!! EXCELLENT POST! I’m a new fan of CleverWorkArounds!!

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