Comments on: Why Do SharePoint Projects Fail? – Part 1

By: CleverWorkarounds » SharePoint Fatigue Syndrome

CleverWorkarounds » SharePoint Fatigue Syndrome — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:26:53 +0000

[...] when their pain-in-the-ass developers whine that they can’t make the schedule. As I have stated many times previously, SharePoint project are likely to have wicked problem aspects to them. The structures that work [...]

By: Corporate Social Media Isn't Personal Social Media | Wallis Run

Corporate Social Media Isn't Personal Social Media | Wallis Run — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:27:54 +0000

[...] across the organization is sharing quality information. This is a fact that has been proven time and time [...]

By: Top 10 Tips for Success with SharePoint: #2 « Chamonix Vue

Top 10 Tips for Success with SharePoint: #2 « Chamonix Vue — Mon, 23 May 2011 00:48:27 +0000

[...] Speaking of phases, it’s a rare deployment that warrants or can afford serving up every piece of the SharePoint ‘pie’ (http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/product/capabilities/Pages/default.aspx) at first and at once. Even if you did have the budget and were able to tick off every segment against burning business priorities, arguably it wouldn’t be a good idea to try, when you consider the user impact and adoption issues, not to mention increased risk of failure. I imagine someone has come up with an equation that proves the likelihood of project success is inversely proportionate to its size and complexity. It certainly holds true for SharePoint. (For an excellent thesis on why SharePoint projects fail, see Paul Culmsee’s highly readable 8-parter that starts here: http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2008/04/11/why-do-sharepoint-projects-fail-part-1/) [...]

By: OneOfSix | Announcing: SharePoint IA Master Class with Paul Culmsee Comes to Toronto May 12-13!

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:24:47 +0000

[...] he is you really should read some of his classic blog posts on governance and architecture such as Why Do SharePoint Projects Fail? and Things Your Mother Never Told You About SharePoint (which featured the classic IKEA [...]

By: Heather Morris who plays Britney

Heather Morris who plays Britney — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:45:37 +0000

Reviewing your website with my children tonight doing some research for their schoolwook thanks

By: I am Planning a SharePoint project - is it any different from typical software development projects? | The MOSS Blog

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:50:35 +0000

[...] take a timeout and head over to Paul Culmsee’s blog and read the series of posts on “Why SharePoint projects fail“. Paul points out all the reasons why sometimes the best efforts of Project Managers and [...]

By: CleverWorkarounds » SBS 2008, Hewlett Packard, WSS3, Search Server 2008 Express and a UPS – Oh the pain!

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:49:11 +0000

[...] ratings for a while, so I thought that this post was apt for dusting them off. If you check the Why do SharePoint Projects Fail series, you will see that I use tequila shots or coffee at times. In this case, I will use the [...]

By: Are we there yet? « Meanderings of a wandering mind

Are we there yet? « Meanderings of a wandering mind — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:24:23 +0000

[...] insightful blogging at CleverWorkarounds and in particular his series focussed on the importance of shared understanding in preventing SharePoint projects from [...]

By: Pages tagged "tequila slammer"

Pages tagged "tequila slammer" — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:34:13 +0000

[...] bookmarks tagged tequila slammer CleverWorkarounds » Why Do SharePoint Projects Fa… saved by 1 others xXNarutosLilSisXx bookmarked on 04/29/09 | [...]

By: Root Causes of Communication Fragmentation: Part 2 - Organizational Culture | End User SharePoint

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:25:07 +0000

[...] Once again I leave you on an Information Architecture note. Someone who only knows a clan culture will very likely put together a SharePoint solution vastly different to someone who has only known hierarchical culture. The prevailing culture will always win the technology battle, no matter how passionate the individuals are. Even organizational stakeholders in a SharePoint project often make this mistake with the "build it and they will come" approach and think that making the technology available will change the culture . This is both naive and dangerous and has the effect of setting yourself up for project failure. [...]