Hi all We have all felt the pain of a meeting or workshop where no-one is engaged, the conversation is being dominated by the loudest or everyone is mired in a tangle of complexity and there is no sense of …

Introduction to Dialogue Mapping class in Melbourne June 13-14 Read more »

Hiya I just recorded the second video on the topic of powerful questions. These powerful questions are the result of the years I’ve spent dialogue mapping many different groups of people on many different problems. As time has gone on, …

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Hi all I’ve been a little busy lately so haven’t had sufficient time to write many articles. This will likely continue for a while as I’m also planning the next heretical book with Kailash. But the other day on a …

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Hi In December I recorded a podcast with Nick Martin over at workshopbank.com. This was a fun interview for two reasons. Nick is a really smart guy and great to talk to, and it was Friday afternoon, close to Christmas …

New videos: Demonstrating the value of Dialogue Mapping Read more »

Hi all One of the conversation areas in SharePoint life that is inevitably complex is that of records management since there are just as many differing opinions on records management as there are legal jurisdictions and different standards to choose …

Making Sense of SharePoint and Digital Records Management… Read more »

Hi all I have spent a bit of time in New Zealand over the last few years, met a lot of really interesting people and frequently get asked about conducting a Dialogue Mapping training workshop over there. I’m really happy …

Interested in learning the craft of Dialogue Mapping in Auckland? Read more »

Hi all This message comes to you from New Zealand where I have been for the last three weeks with the family. While here, I am doing a talk on Dialogue Mapping for Tepu (a partnership between Unitec & Rosebank …

Learn about Dialogue Mapping in Auckland Jan 31st Read more »

Hi all and welcome to the next exciting instalment of my confessions from my work as a SharePoint architect and beyond. This is the eighth post and my last for 2012, so I will get straight into it. To recap, …

Confessions of a (post) SharePoint architect: The dangers of dial tone governance… 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 and welcome to the second post of a series that I have been wanting to write for a while. In this series, I am going to cover some of the lesser considered areas of being a SharePoint architect …

Confessions of a (post) SharePoint Architect: Don’t define “governance” Read more »