Hi all I just recorded the third video on the topic of powerful questions. The purpose of this series of videos is to help facilitators, project managers, business analysts and SharePoint peeps ask better questions of their stakeholders. The first …

Powerful questions part 3: The “I told you so” question Read more »

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 »

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 and welcome to the final article in my series on SharePoint performance management – for now anyway. Once SharePoint 2013 goes RTM, I might revisit this topic if it makes sense to, but some other blogging topics have …

Demystifying SharePoint Performance Management Part 11 – Tales from the Microsoft labs Read more »

Hi all and welcome to the tenth article in my series on demystifying SharePoint performance management. I do feel that we are getting toward the home stretch here. If you go way back to Part 1, I stated my intent …

Demystifying SharePoint Performance Management Part 10 – More tools of the trade… Read more »

Hi and welcome to Part 9 (bloody hell… nine!) of my series on trying to demystify SharePoint performance management a bit. If by any chance you have been asked to provide some sizing information for your organisation and you are …

Demystifying SharePoint Performance Management Part 9 – Don’t believe everything you R/W Read more »

Well here we are at part 8 of my series on making SharePoint performance management that little bit easier to understand. What is interesting about this series is its timing. If by some minute chance that the marketing tsunami has …

Demystifying SharePoint Performance Management Part 8 – More on SQL and SQLIO Read more »

Hi all, and welcome to part 7 of this series on SharePoint performance planning. This is the point of the series where I realise that I have much more to write about than I intended. Last time this happened I …

Demystifying SharePoint Performance Management Part 7 – Getting at Latency, IOPS and MBPS Read more »

Hi all Welcome to part 6 on my series in making SharePoint performance management that little more digestible. To recap where we have been, I introduced the series by comparing lead versus lag indicators before launching into an examination of …

Demystifying SharePoint Performance Management Part 6 – The unholy trinity of Latency, IOPS and MBPS Read more »

Hi all Welcome to part 5 in my attempt to make SharePoint performance management a little more accessible. Now that we have dealt with the world of request per second in parts two, three and four, we will focus our …

Demystifying SharePoint Performance Management Part 5 – So what is latency anyway? Read more »