Once upon a time there lived a rather round wizard named Hocklart who worked at the FogWorts school of witchcraft and wizardry. Hocklart was a very proud wizard, perhaps the proudest in all of FogWorts. His pride did not stem …

A Very Potter Audit – A Best Practices Parable Read more »

Hi all *sigh* This post comes to you during my reality check of returning to work after the bliss of 1 month of vacation in New Zealand. After walking on a glacier, racing around in jetboats and relaxing in volcanic …

Confession of a (post) SharePoint architect… “Thou shalt NOT” Read more »

Hi and welcome to the latest exciting instalment in my epic series of posts on my confessions of a post SharePoint architect. I was motivated to write this series because the mild mannered shrinking violet known as Bjorn Furuknap wrote …

Confession of a (post) SharePoint architect… What are you polishing? Read more »

Hi all and welcome back to my ever growing series which attempts to codify a lot of learning over a long period of time into something that I hope is readable, rigorous and is useful to anyone tasked with successful …

Confessions of a (post) SharePoint Architect: A pink box called chaos… Read more »

Hello kung-fu students and thanks for dropping by to complete your platitude training. If you have been dutifully following the prior 5 articles so far in this series, you will have now earned your yellow belt in platitude kung-fu and …

Confessions of a (post) SharePoint architect: Black belt platitude kung-fu Read more »

Hi all. It’s been a while I know, but it is time to continue along my journey of confessions of a post SharePoint architect. As I write this, the SharePoint community is in Vegas, soaking up the love of the …

Confessions of a (post) SharePoint architect: Yellow belt platitude kung-fu Read more »

Hi and welcome to another SharePoint (post) architect confessional post. In case you are here via the good grace of whatever Google’s search relevance algorithm feels like doing today, I need to give you a little context to this post …

Confessions of a (post) SharePoint Architect: The self-fulfilling governance prophecy Read more »

Hi all and welcome to another small piece of my SharePoint architect manifesto. In the previous post I introduced you to the notion of f-laws, which were first coined in a book co-authored by Russell Ackoff. In the process of …

Confessions of a (post) SharePoint architect: Do not penalise people for learning Read more »

Hi all. Welcome to part 4 of a rapidly growing series of posts on trying to take some of the mystery out of SharePoint performance management. Essentially I am trying to write a sort of preamble to the existing Microsoft …

Demystifying SharePoint Performance Management Part 4 – Making use of RPS Read more »

Hi all I never mentioned it in the first post that the reason I am blogging again is I finally completed most of the game Skyrim. Man – that game is dangerous if you value your time! Anyway, in the …

Demystifying SharePoint Performance Management Part 2 – So what is RPS anyway? Read more »