Yup you heard right. I am particularly excited for the Melbourne SharePoint conference in June because I get to unleash “Dr Neil” onto the SharePoint world. Neil (who’s full name is Neil Preston) is an Organisational Psychologist who I have …
An Organisational Psychologist is keynoting a SharePoint conference? What the… 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 »
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 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 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 »
Bjørn Furuknap you have gone too far this time! There I said it. On behalf of the SharePoint community, I feel that someone needs to speak up about your reprehensible behaviour, so I have taken it upon myself to right …
Confessions of a (post) SharePoint Architect: Midwives versus doctors 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 »
About bloody time eh? The Heretics Guide to Best Practices is now available through Amazon, Barnes and Noble and iUniverse. ] In Paul and Kailash I have found kindred spirits who understand how messed up most organizations are, and …
I was surprised to see the recent SharePoint Fatigue Syndrome post got some traction in the interweb. As it happened, that particular post was kicking around in an unfinished state for months. The thing is, its not the only “home …
Why SharePoint training sometimes doesn’t deliver (and what to do about it) Read more »
Hiya I have been wrong about many things – I am happy to admit that. In SharePoint land, one of my bigger naive assumptions was that in early 2007, I figured I’d have maybe a 6 month head start before …