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, …
Powerful questions part 2: The key focus area question Read more »
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 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 »
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 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 »
“That’s only 10%…” One of my mentors who is mentioned in the book I wrote with Kailash (Darryl) is a veteran project manager in the construction and engineering industry. He has been working as a project manager more than 30 …
On the decay (or remarkable recurrence) of knowledge Read more »
Hi all Just a quick note to mention that I’m off travelling again, this time swapping 39 degree Celsius summer weather of Perth for somewhere between –6 to 5 degrees of Canada. I’ll be spending a week in Canada running …
An opportunity to learn about aligning SharePoint to business goals in Vancouver Read more »
Hi Those of you who get an RSS feed of this blog might have noticed it was busy over last week. This is because I pushed out 4 blog posts that showed my analysis using IBIS of a detailed linear …
Why can’t people find stuff on the intranet?–Final summary Read more »