The background Over the last three years, my career trajectory had altered somewhat where I spent half my time as a SharePoint practitioner, doing all of the things that us SharePoint practitioners do, and the other half was spent in …

A different kind of SharePoint Governance Master Class in London and Dublin Read more »

This is really great, and something that’s been a long time coming. On behalf of my partners at Seven Sigma, I’m announcing the formation of the SamePage Alliance. A strategic partnership with Seven Sigma and 21Apps, founded by Andrew Woodward, …

Announcing the SamePage Alliance Read more »

Having spoken at the odd SharePoint event over the last three years or so, I’ve always lamented on the lack of a purely business focused SharePoint conference. Whilst the conferences I attend do cater for non technology oriented topics – …

Share2010 – A new kind of SharePoint conference Read more »

I’m in an airport (again), typing this on my way back from my latest trip to New Zealand – a country I am loving more and more each time I go there. (Anywhere that I can go that uses the …

Also why I’ve been quiet… Read more »

As you may have noticed, this blog has been a bit of a dead zone lately. There are several very good reasons for this – one being that a lot of my creative energy has been going into co-writing a …

Why I’ve been quiet… Read more »

Hi all I am finding it increasingly difficult to find the time to post at the moment. Too many projects, too many initiatives and too many evil plans coming to fruition. It’s like every seed I planted last year suddenly …

A roving we will go… Read more »

Vulgarity warning. Its the silly season, I am winding down and being more low-brow than usual with this post There is this wonderful way to look at the world, through a lens of something called “Complex adaptive systems”. Unfortunately with …

The problem with sales guys… (a peek into complex adaptive systems) Read more »

…and we’re back! Well… that was a long commercial break wasn’t it 🙂 In case you missed part 1 of our version of the show “deal or no deal”, you missed the big cliff-hanger and you really should read part …

A simple way to improve your estimating (and a cool pub trick) – Conclusion Read more »

Okay I’ll admit it, I used to really suck as a time and effort estimator. I happen to have a business partner who is much better at it than me (hey Peter), and every time I sought a second opinion …

A simple way to improve your estimating (and a cool pub trick) – Part 1 Read more »

Hi I attended and spoke at the Perth Business Analyst World Conference this week and really enjoyed it. This was a bit of a departure from the SharePoint events that I normally frequent, and I really didn’t know what to …

Am I a Business Analyst? What about those calling themselves BAs? Read more »