Hi all Workflows are big business in SharePoint land, despite the capability of SharePoint Designer Workflows being a fairly weak link in the overall SharePoint value proposition. If this wasn’t the case, then products like Nintex or K2 would not …
Trials or tribulation? Inside SharePoint 2013 workflows–Part 1 Read more »
Hi all I am reporting this one because the resolution was harder to find that it should be. After applying the October CU for SP2013 and try and launch PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer, you will receive the error message Application cannot …
When PerformancePoint Designer won’t start after applying the SP2013 October CU Read more »
Hiya Here is me in tech/troubleshooting mode so you business-types who read this blog can skip this post The Issue There are often times when its very useful to use a SOAP webservice call to a SharePoint 2010 list when …
What does project management mean to me? Well if you want me to give you the ‘glass half empty’ perspective, it’s easy. What project management means to me is a confused discipline where practitioners routinely do really dumb shit in …
What does project management mean to me – a Project Manager’s sermon Read more »
Pardon the pun, but I just had a ‘clever workaround’ moment with SharePoint’s oData/REST implementation when it comes to filtering list items based on taxonomy (managed metadata) columns. Now I do not consider myself a developer, so this article is …
How to filter on a Managed Metadata column via REST in SharePoint 2013 Read more »
Just a quick FYI.. A while back, Shim Marom (an Australian Project Management blogger) invited me to participate in an idea he had. He wanted to get a bunch of PM bloggers to write a sermon on the same topic and …
The worlds biggest Project Management rant is happening on September 25 (#PMFlashblog) Read more »
Here is a quick note with regards to PowerPivot Dashboard Designer connecting to SharePoint lists utilising Per-user identity on the single server. The screenshot above shows what I mean. I have told Dashboard designer to use a SharePoint list as …
Hi all Welcome to part five of my quest to improve people’s awareness and understanding of what SharePoint maturity is really all about. For those new to this series of articles, we have traversed a bit of territory to get …
Rethinking SharePoint Maturity Part 5: From Conditions to Actionable Lessons Learnt Read more »
Hi all This is part four of a series I am writing on my ideas about how the SharePoint community can revitalise how SharePoint maturity is understood and communicated. If this is your first time reading this series, then I …
Rethinking SharePoint Maturity Part 4: The number of the beast… Read more »
Hi all Welcome to part 3 in this series about rethinking what SharePoint “maturity” looks like. In the first post, I introduced the work of JR Hackman and his notion of trying to create enabling conditions, rather than attribute cause …
Rethinking SharePoint Maturity Part 3: Who moved my cheese? Read more »