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 »

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 There are a couple of conferences happening this month that you should seriously consider attending. The New Zealand and Australian SharePoint Community Conferences. This year things have changed. There are over 50 Sessions designed to cater to …

Warts and all SharePoint caveats in Melbourne and Auckland Read more »

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 …

SharePoint Fatigue Syndrome Read more »

On the twitterverse recently, someone stated that because of a problem of excessive SharePoint site sprawl, they were going to institute a new site approval process. On the surface this remedy seems to be perfectly reasonable. After all, there is …

Whatever you do, do not ignore legacy Read more »