Hi all Just to let you know that in October, I will be in the UK to run a SharePoint Governance and Information Architecture class with Andrew Woodward. Additionally, I am very pleased to offer a Dialogue Mapping introductory course …

Save the date in October: SharePoint Governance and Dialogue Mapping in the UK 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 »

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 »

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 »

Hi all Just a quick note for those of you who are of the academic persuasion or who have an interest in research and academic literature. Kailash and I wrote a paper for the International Journal for Managing Projects in …

I’m published in a PM Journal Read more »

Hi all Welcome to my fifth post that delves into the irrational world of cloud computing. After examining the not-so-obvious aspects of Microsoft, Amazon and the industry more broadly, its time to shift focus a little. Now the appeal of …

The cloud isn’t the problem–Part 5: Server huggers and a crisis of identity 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 »

Hi all Welcome to my second post that delves into the irrational world of cloud computing. In the first post, I described my first foray into the world of web hosting, which started way back in 2000. Back then I …

The cloud isn’t the problem–Part 2: When complex technology meets process… Read more »